Chapters tagged fantasy

Call the guards by pwizdelf

Chapter 16

===80 Summer 1380========== “Through here,” old Eiwan Fearcher told me and Curry, motioning us to follow as he shuffled slowly toward the alley on unsteady legs, stumping his cane ahead of him. “There’s a cat or a possum what must have got drowned in there,” he said, pointing fr...

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The unexpectedly curative power of Titty-Tusk by pwizdelf

Chapter 17

It took not quite half an hour for Curry to come back, and I could tell he wanted to talk about it, except that by now a few people from the neighborhood were beginning to gather at the corners, drifting curiously toward us, and we realized it would be necessary to cordon off a l...

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General scutchery by pwizdelf

Chapter 18

The scene still wasn’t wrapped up by the time our shift was meant to be over five hours later. Both Curry and I would have preferred to stay and see things through, except we weren't approved for overtime, so Lamb and Ladd sent us away with strict instructions to shower, get a li...

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The chaunceyhorse and the all-hands toll by pwizdelf

Chapter 19

Since it was already eight o’clock, and today was only Seconday, when we got to our local there was no difficulty getting one of the good booths up by the front window. “I wish summer wasn’t almost over,” I said a little wistfully, once the owner's daughter Elena had served us e...

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Will the following personnel please remain behind by pwizdelf

Chapter 20

All in, the bell tolled for a half hour before it finally stopped. By that point we'd already been at the castle a good ten minutes or so, which with the two pints I’d guzzled too quickly was enough time for the sound to lodge in my consciousness as a semipermanent background ins...

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Do Not Recall by pwizdelf

Chapter 21

Standing between Baggett and Curry, I heard the sharp intake of Baggett’s breath, and the barely audible sound of dismayed surprise from Curry, and wondered distantly what they had observed about my own reaction. I felt the odd pricking sensation of hairs standing up all over my...

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Hold my beer by pwizdelf

Chapter 22

Outside, the castle bell was just tolling eleven and the castleyard was empty, which must mean the search for Ladd had begun. Curry reached for my hand before I could reach for his. I gave him a fierce squeeze, which he returned, then kept hanging on to me. “I don’t see how one...

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A slight miscalculation by pwizdelf

Chapter 23

===82 Summer 1380========== “How did it never occur to us that they’d place watch wards here?” Curry lamented as we stood in the hall outside Lamb’s door staring in stupid dismay at the glowing watch wards that if crossed would tell the real guards we’d been here without...

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Do not tempt me, you filthy derelict by pwizdelf

Chapter 24

“What is that?” Curry asked, as he and I moved over to look. Anton shook his head and passed him the sheet. “Public house menu.” He knelt and began gathering up the others. Curry stared at the page, then turned it over and studied it for a moment before holding it out to me. “T...

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Never meet your heroes by pwizdelf

Chapter 25

Curry had reconstructed the material substance of Lamb’s mad-looking string map on paper, better than I ever could have, and wanted me to attest that his two dimensional replica was faithful enough that he could now pull down the real thing and transfer it into our possession. I...

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