Stormrider (2002)
“Enemy snipers were hidden in the woods to the northeast, and some of them were highly skilled. Dropping to his knees, Kaelin crawled along the shelter of a low wall, then sprinted across a short section of open ground.
No shots were fired.
Garon Beck and his senior officers were inside the ruins of a church. The stained-glass windows had been blasted away, and fragments of colored glass littered the nave. Musketeers had set up a firing platform by the windows, and at the far end of the church a surgeon and his orderlies were tending to close to a hundred wounded men.
Kaelin approached Beck. The general had lost weight, and the skin of his face was sagging, adding years to his features. His dark hair was also showing a white line from the temples and up over his brow. Kaelin realized he had previously dyed his hair in a bid to appear younger. Idly he wondered how old Beck really was. The general glanced up as Kaelin entered.
“We were discussing where to fall back to and when,” said Beck.
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