Triage is no fun.

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Well, I think this may be about as good as I can make it.

Whatever Kit had said to the boys in their corner must have worked. They all leaped to their feet and scrambled out the door. Jonn went with them. I climbed the ladder from the innyard to the rooftop, and was soon joined by the half dozen archers covering this side of the village. From this ( Read more... )

Boy, I'm taking my own sweet time getting there, aren't I?

Those who aren't involved with either horse racing or the history of English measures may not know that a furlong is 1/8 of a mile. In fact, the reason for the odd length of a mile in feet is that the 15th century (I think) English government redefined it so that it came out to an even ( Read more... )

So I ended up splitting Chapter 8 as I originally planned it into three parts. Some of the parts make for fairly short chapters -- as this story goes, anyway -- but it makes more sense this way and will be less of a monster to read all at once.

Two days later I was running pike drills when the eagle descended to alight on the inn’s signboard and ( Read more... )

And here's the rest of the chapter.

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And we get a little closer...

The adult content flag is for a brief explicit episode near the end.

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This may help with the geography of my stories. I doubt it will display well without downloading the whole thing, so please click. It's still pretty sketchy, but I'll fill it in as the stories progress.

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I wonder how you become a brigand. Do you have to go to brigand school or something? Is it something you can get a degree in from a community college? Just asking...

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Forging ahead...

On our next trip to the village we took the cart with us, figuring it would make the return trip much easier. We made an early start of it so that most of our travel wasn’t done in the sticky heat, and arrived at its height a couple of hours after noon. The Beaten Horse and some cool beer were very much on my mind right then. With ( Read more... )

The problem is really trying to find good places to break the chapter up without interrupting the narrative too intrusively. I could have fit this chapter into two posts, but I'd have had to chop it someplace unnatural. I'm not terribly happy with where I had to cut it here, but I had little choice.

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