Seven Stones: Part Sixty-One
Previously on Seven Stones: After fighting his way through the crowds, Kobb realises that — even if they sneak the Tan-Sorda past the guards without the alarm being raised — the streets will be filled with potential witnesses until late into each night. Anessa is mistaken for one of the hunters employed by the Duke, giving Haelen a cunning idea; however, before they can return to their room to discuss it, thugs ambush them.
Kobb considered the two figures swaggering from further down the street. Turning his leg out, he stepped forward. Weight shifting sideways, he hooked his right fingers around the quillons of his rapier and drew upward. The hilt smashed into the jaw of the thug lunging from a side alley before slipping into Kobb’s left hand.
Body following his hand, Kobb drove his knee into the reeling attacker’s groin. The foetid gust of onions and rotten teeth washed over Kobb. A crisp strike to the back of the thug’s neck with his now-empty right hand laid his opponent face down on the cobbles.
Ambush falling apart before them, the two approaching assailants abandoned their saunter for a run, pulling knives as they came.
A breath later, one staggered to a halt, Anessa’s bolt jutting from his left thigh.
