The Boar Stone: book Three of the Dalriada Trilogy
“He pulled up at the lip of the hill so abruptly that the horse shied.At first the Dux said nothing, gazing into this cursed mist that had fallen over the rolling hills below the Wall. It was only now being burned off by a rising sun. ‘Do we know the numbers?’ he bellowed to his officers, sitting on their mounts beneath his standard.Their faces sported the same carefully blank expressions, but Fullofaudes saw in their eyes the stark fear he was trying to suppress. ‘Not yet, sir,’ one said, clear...ing his throat. ‘We can’t see far enough, so I have sent riders along the fringes to determine the extent of the enemy force.’ Fullofaudes watched his lips move. The enemy force. Tugging off his helmet, he ran his hands through sweaty hair, conscious of the grime coating his face and muddied armour. He was not his usual self, precise and hard: he was undone.The first message had been a brutal shock. He received the news in Brigantes territory, after quelling another riot about taxes.MoreLess
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