Brothers in Arms by Margaret Weis & Don Perrin

Author:Margaret Weis & Don Perrin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Fantasy - General, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Sagas, Fiction - Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, American, Fantasy, Imaginary Wars and Battles, Fantasy - Series, General
ISBN: 9780786914296
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Published: 1999-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

"Come along, Caramon," Raistlin ordered irritably. His exhilaration was fading. The weakness that set in after his use of magic was starting to affect him. "You've wasted enough time proving to the world that you're a fool."

"But, Raist, I don't understand ..."

Still talking, Caramon trailed after his twin.

Tumbler coiled the rope over his shoulder and hurried after them. He ducked into the warehouse just as the city woke in an uproar to prepare for the coming assault.

12

Once the warehouse was taken, secured, searched, and deemed as safe a hiding place as could possibly be found inside an enemy city under siege, the sergeant of C Company set the watch and told the rest to get some sleep. Raistlin was already deep in an exhausted slumber, worn out from the physical exertion and the rig-ors of his spell-casting.

Those keeping lookout tried hard to ignore the snoring of their comrades. The guards walked off their tiredness, pacing the length of the empty warehouse floor, pausing now and then to glance out the windows or exchange soft snatches of conversation. By the end of the watch, they were nodding at their posts, eyes closing and heads falling forward only to snap awake in sudden alertness at the sound of a footstep in the street or a rat in the rafters.

The morning passed without incident. Few people walked the streets in this part of town. The gate tax had shut down the markets, emptied the warehouses of their goods. The only civilians who ventured past were apparently on their way somewhere else, for they looked neither to the left nor to the right but continued on, their heads bowed with trouble. Once four guards marched into view, causing those on watch to lay their hands on their swords and prepare to wake their comrades. But the guards kept on going and the watch looked at each other, nodded, and grinned. The mage's tactics had apparently been successful. No one knew that the town's defense had been breached. No one knew they were here.

The rain ceased with the dawn. The midday sun rose high overhead. Raistlin slept as though he might never waken, his twin keeping watch over his brother. The rest of the men either continued their slumbers or lounged on the floor, glad of the chance to do nothing for a change, resting up for what was likely going to be a long and dangerous night.

Except Scrounger.

Scrounger was much more human than kender. The kender blood in him ran thin, but there were times when it would bubble up to the surface and break out all over him like a bad rash. The particular itch tormenting him at the moment was boredom. A bored kender is a dangerous kender, as anyone on Ansalon will tell you. A bored half-kender might be said to be only half as dangerous. How-ever, those in the presence of a bored half-kender would do well to loosen their swords in their sheaths and be ready for trouble.

Scrounger'd had

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