Monarchies of God 04 - The Second Empire by Paul Kearney

Author:Paul Kearney [Kearney, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, General, Epic
ISBN: 9780441009244
Google: rRMCAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0441009247
Publisher: Ace
Published: 1997-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

The Merduk officer smiled, and without a word he drew his tulwar. A flash of steel in the thin winter

sunlight, and Ries Millian was on his knees, choking, his hands striving in vain to close his gaping

windpipe. Blood on the cobbles, squirts and gouts of it steaming like soup. The headman fell on his side,

twitched, lay still. In the crowd a woman shrieked, rushed forward and cast herself on to the body. The

Merduk officer gestured impatiently and two of his men lifted her away, still shrieking. In full view of the

crowd that had gathered, they stripped her, cutting the clothes from her body with their swords and

slicing flesh from her limbs as they did so. When she was naked, they bent her over and one thrust his

scimitar up between her legs with a grunt, until only the hilt of the weapon was visible. The woman went

silent, collapsed, and slid off the end of the blade. The Merduks grinned and laughed. He who had killed

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