The Silent Enemy
“Feeling guilty, he ate only what he deemed necessary, hoping to make the reduction minimal. The meat was of a flavor and texture unknown to him, but from comments heard the knight suspected most of it to be squirrel. That and rabbit appeared the most accessible meat available to the exiles although there were some hardy goats and even a few cattle, too.
Nermesa sat on one of four benches surrounding a square, wooden table located in a chamber adjoining what Valamon referred to as Haral’s “royal court.” To the bald warrior and the rest in the settlement, the onetime merchant might as well have been a king. From what Nermesa learned, before Haral’s coming, the inhabitants had nearly starved to death. It was he who had organized them and turned their settlement into something vaguely approaching what most of them had lost.
But one thing that no one, not even Haral, had lost had been their bitterness toward Nemedia . . . and King Tarascus.
“Valamon and four others will guide you to the ed...ge of the Border Kingdom.MoreLess
Nermesa sat on one of four benches surrounding a square, wooden table located in a chamber adjoining what Valamon referred to as Haral’s “royal court.” To the bald warrior and the rest in the settlement, the onetime merchant might as well have been a king. From what Nermesa learned, before Haral’s coming, the inhabitants had nearly starved to death. It was he who had organized them and turned their settlement into something vaguely approaching what most of them had lost.
But one thing that no one, not even Haral, had lost had been their bitterness toward Nemedia . . . and King Tarascus.
“Valamon and four others will guide you to the ed...ge of the Border Kingdom.MoreLess
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