The Gambler's Fortune (Einarinn 3)

Authors: Mckenna, Juliet E.

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“demanded Jeirran, astonished.Keisyl squinted into the sun. “Carts, lowlanders, smoke…” A sound of hammering echoed around the smooth slopes of the valley.“How dare they!” Teiriol looked around for agreement.Eirys bent down from her rough-coated gray pony. “Don’t let’s get involved,” she pleaded. “Let’s get to the fess. They’ll be sorting it out, won’t they?”“If they’ve any mettle in their bones.” Doubt shaded Jeirran’s words.“Come on.” Keisyl pulled on the bridle of the pack mule he led. It fol...lowed him placidly, a string of others coming on behind. Jeirran and Teiriol were a little slower, glaring angrily at the activity they could now see clearly in a fold of land down by a stream. A handful of wagons were drawn up, awnings slung between them. Small figures were busy around a stack of fresh-felled trees, drifts of dust rising from a sawpit and one solitary man astride a massive log stripping bark and branches with an axe. Others were marking the unmistakable lines of a house with pegs and line in the muddied grass.“Ho, you there!”MoreLess Read More Read Less