Uneasy Alliances
Uneasy Alliances
“A dark rain lashed his cheeks, and he felt warm blood running down his face. Some of it trickled into his mouth, and he tasted its salty tang.
“Noph!”
Harloon was calling him, struggling in the grasp of a club-swinging ettin.
“I’m coming, Harloon!”
The youth bent to push the tall bushes and grass of the lonely moor away from his legs.
They wouldn’t move.
“Noph!”
Noph pushed again at the grassy covering over his legs. He opened his eyes, not to the wind and rain of his dream-inspired moor, but t...o another darkness, one filled with pain. Someone was whispering urgently in his ear.
“Noph, are you all right?”
“Yes … no … I… I can’t move my legs.”
“Damn! Wait a minute.”
Noph heard the scrape of a tinderbox, and a faint, flickering light illuminated his surroundings. He was lying on top of a pile of rubble. Blackness stretched around him as far as he could see. Before him knelt Shar, an ugly gash across her forehead. She had torn a strip of cloth from her shirt and, winding it around a piece of wood, was busy fashioning a makeshift torch.MoreLess
“Noph!”
Harloon was calling him, struggling in the grasp of a club-swinging ettin.
“I’m coming, Harloon!”
The youth bent to push the tall bushes and grass of the lonely moor away from his legs.
They wouldn’t move.
“Noph!”
Noph pushed again at the grassy covering over his legs. He opened his eyes, not to the wind and rain of his dream-inspired moor, but t...o another darkness, one filled with pain. Someone was whispering urgently in his ear.
“Noph, are you all right?”
“Yes … no … I… I can’t move my legs.”
“Damn! Wait a minute.”
Noph heard the scrape of a tinderbox, and a faint, flickering light illuminated his surroundings. He was lying on top of a pile of rubble. Blackness stretched around him as far as he could see. Before him knelt Shar, an ugly gash across her forehead. She had torn a strip of cloth from her shirt and, winding it around a piece of wood, was busy fashioning a makeshift torch.MoreLess
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