Through the Black Veil (2013)
“Skip said. “He lives.”
Donovan looked like la mierda. He had zero color in his face, his hair was greasy and matted from sleep and trauma and though he accepted no assistance, he was walking like he’d been thrown out of a ten-story building.
The new boys stood up at his descent from the stairs and assumed the position of attention. Skip chuckled in his head. Some things were the same everywhere.
The contrast between them was stark: Donovan in his dirty, bloodstained and ripped black... military fatigues against two “Cavaliers” resplendent in green chain mail armor, elaborate surcoats and a lean, dusky-skinned archer holding an unstringed bow. They were all on guard.
“I am told that you are the slayer of the Necromancer,” Captain Taksony, aka Goldenboy to Skip, said when Donovan reached the bottom. Flanking Donovan were Amanda and Noah. Dwensolt watched silently from beside Tarsidion and Cirena.MoreLess
Donovan looked like la mierda. He had zero color in his face, his hair was greasy and matted from sleep and trauma and though he accepted no assistance, he was walking like he’d been thrown out of a ten-story building.
The new boys stood up at his descent from the stairs and assumed the position of attention. Skip chuckled in his head. Some things were the same everywhere.
The contrast between them was stark: Donovan in his dirty, bloodstained and ripped black... military fatigues against two “Cavaliers” resplendent in green chain mail armor, elaborate surcoats and a lean, dusky-skinned archer holding an unstringed bow. They were all on guard.
“I am told that you are the slayer of the Necromancer,” Captain Taksony, aka Goldenboy to Skip, said when Donovan reached the bottom. Flanking Donovan were Amanda and Noah. Dwensolt watched silently from beside Tarsidion and Cirena.MoreLess
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