Gotrek & Felix [09] - Manslayer by Nathan Long

Author:Nathan Long [Long, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Epic, Fantasy, Fantasy fiction, General, Fiction, Action & Adventure, Felix (Fictitious character), Gotrek (Fictitious character), Felix (Fictitious character: King), Gotrek (Fictitious character: King)
ISBN: 9781844165094
Publisher: Games Workshop
Published: 2007-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

A few fitful raindrops spattered the steps as Felix and Otto stepped out of Wulf’s. Thick clouds hid the moons and the wind was cool and wet. Otto summoned his coach and it trotted up. Felix followed Otto into it, glad that it was covered. It looked like a storm was coming.

As they started up Commerce Street towards Kaufman district gate, Otto crossed his hands over his broad belly and burped contentedly. “You’re staying at the College of Engineering?” he asked. “Shall I drop you there?”

“Thank you,” said Felix. The faster he got back the better. “Very nice of you. And thank you for the dinner.”

“Not at all. Happy to. I’m just glad you’ve finally come around to deciding to make something of yourself. Once you start with the company we’ll dine out like this all the time. Though I hope you don’t want to go to Wulf’s next—”

Otto was interrupted by a shout, and the coach slewed to an abrupt stop with a neighing of horses and a skidding of hoofs on wet cobbles. Felix and Otto flew forward out of their seats. Felix heard the bodyguards curse as they were thrown from their perches and tried to land on their feet on the street.

Felix pulled himself up and dropped his hand to his sword.

“Manni! Yan! Olaf! What is it!” called Otto.

“Men, sir,” came the coachman’s voice.

“Men with swords,” said one of the bodyguards. “Near a dozen.”

Fear gripped Felix’s heart. Who was it? Hermione’s gentlemen? Men from the Cleansing Flame? Had Countess Gabriella decided to kill him after all?

“Easy, gentles, easy,” said a Shantytown voice. “We only want yer valuables, not yer lives. Hand ’em over peaceable and there’ll be no need for violence.”

Felix gaped, amazed. Shallya’s Mercy! Was it only a robbery? Could he be so lucky?

“Stand away, you ruffians!” retorted the other bodyguard. “You’ll get steel before you get gold.”

“No no!” cried Otto. “Don’t fight them! It isn’t worth your lives. Stand down.” He pulled himself up and peeked out the window. “Come forward, gentlemen. We’ll give you what we have.”

“That’s the way, m’lords,” said the Shantytown voice as boots approached the coach from either side. “Nice and easy.”

“You watch yourselves,” growled a bodyguard. “No tricks.”

“Sigmar’s beard!” said Otto as he wiggled the rings off his fingers and started stuffing them under the cushions of the bench. “The brass of these fellows. Right in the middle of Commerce Street! Where is the watch when they’re wanted?”

Felix sat back on the bench as the bootsteps reached the coach’s two doors. His hand went to his dagger. The coach rocked on its springs and two scarred, grinning faces appeared in the windows.

“Evening, gentles,” said the one on Felix’s side, a swarthy fellow in a soft hat.

The other, who lacked a right eye, looked from Otto to Felix and back. “Aye,” he said. “These are the ones.”

The two robbers drew pistols from their doublets and stuck them through the windows.

Felix struck out in two directions at once, kicking hard against

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