Adams, Robert -- Horseclans - 08 by The Death Of A Legend

Author:The Death Of A Legend
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-07-19T18:40:53+00:00

of her cuirass and was reaching for one of her cuishes, but was waved away. “No, Meeree, help Bili first. Remember, he now it leader of us all.”

of her cuirass and was reaching for one of her cuishes, but was waved away. “No, Meeree, help Bili first. Remember, he now it leader of us all.”

Springing from his kak, the wide-eyed trooper gasped, “My lord duke, Lieutenant Roopuht bids me report to your grace that he sees no men or horses, but that some beast, a huge, scaley monster, is even now advancing up the brook track into the vale.”

Without a word. Bill vaulted into the saddle and, trailed closely by Rahksahnah, the nobles and the officers, headed Mahvros back the way the galloper bad come. Troubled deeply by the vastly conflicting reports, he mindcalled Whitetip. “I am here, Chief Bill,” was the feline’s prompt response. “As you ordered, about halfway up the column and out of sight. Most of the twolegs have halted here. Perhaps only as many in numbers as I have claws on my four feet have kept on along the running water.”

“Are all of them fighters?” Bfli demanded. “And see you anything of a large animal coming this way before them?”

“All are fighters, right enough, Chief Bili. And I see no beasts, large or small, only huge men on Northorses, as many of them as my back claws

I think. The smallest is as big as the giant man whom you slew before the great shaking.” Every step Mahvros took increased the agony of Bill’s presentiment of great danger just ahead. After hand-signaling those behind him to fully arm, he uncased his gigantic axe, but did not yet lower his visor, wishing to maintain maximum visibility of what must soon come to pass in this decidedly unusual situation. Behind him he heard the ripple of sound as visors were lowered and locked, and as sabers and broadswords came out of sheaths. Whatever might now occur, he and the van were as ready as they could be. Approaching the place where the stream debouched between a pair of precipitous knobs onto relatively level ground, Bill’s presentiment became almost overpowering. Then, amid a shower of hastily gathered boulders and a chorus of horrified shouts from Lieutenant Roopuht and his men on the knob above, the ultimate terror poked its preter-narurally huge snout into the vale, flicking a forked tongue as long as a lance shaft before it! Rahksahnah’s scream of terror was not the only one, and they were all combined with the whufflings and snortings of horses suddenly reined up short. But Bili forced his trained and disciplined mind to calm appraisal of the monster now waddling around the rocky

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