(I’m not sure why the mirroring of these posts doesn’t seem to be working quite right, so for the moment I’m doing it by hand…)
(Continuing the weekly serial by Cecilia Tan! Need to start at the beginning? Click here.)
37: Kenet
The next morning the general met with a bevy of his top commanders. I was bade to wait in the field marshal’s tent with two other pages…
Part 35: Kenet
The next day, the general was still not recovered enough to ride. The leg which had been stiff to the point of agony, was now too weak…
Part 34: Jorin
There was a moment, one morning, when I was half-asleep still, when I believed that everything that had happened had been an awful…
Part 33: Kenet
I played the part of Roichal’s page for a few more days, as he and the field marshal checked over what seemed to me to be the entire…
Part 32: Jorin
When next I woke, I found Kan lying next to me, propped up on one elbow, as if he had been watching me sleep.
Part 31: Kenet
The next day dawned damp and chill, but the fog burned off by midmorning. From the rise where Roichal’s tent was pitched I could see a…