Take the darkness..: Gritty Epic Fantasy (Dark Gods Book 2) by Arthur King

Author:Arthur King [King, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-01-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Dressed in a Twin Plains uniform that really didn’t fit her properly, Josette and a group of other archers stood before the hidden entrance in the black stone wall as the night began to fall. Grimm stood with his own group of motley men in the near darkness. All she could see was the outline of his body, beard, and the huge axe he’d brought with him. He’d picked the roughest looking of the Cold Death men to play the part of mercenaries, and the fresh-faced young ones to be the Twin Plains levies.

‘The plan is simple. These idiots are having a fake fight tonight and we’re going to make it real. Mercenaries and soldiers hate each other anyway and it’s going to be easy enough to make them draw real blood. You know your roles and we’ve discussed them at length. Above all, if no one gets killed and I’ll be happy, even if we only take one of these pigs down. Now get to it, and be back before sunrise; we have a man at the door, you know the knock.’

While the Northerners had a reputation for being mindless animals in battle, she knew from personal experience that they were used to fighting against much larger groups of enemies and wouldn’t shy from the fight. That being said, they also wouldn’t charge headlong into suicide, but would hit a weaker part of the force, retreat, and come again: they would see no shame in winning through guile.

She walked brazenly down the path with her group of ten or so uniformed soldiers. She wished she was in her archer’s garb and able to slink in the shadows, but Grimm had faith in her acting ability and wanted to use it as well. There were three groups of them. She would infiltrate the Duke’s army, stir what resentment she could, and then really attack. Grimm would do the same with the mercenaries, and the third largest group would hide in the shadows and try to take down as many as they could from either side to try and provoke the fight.

The night had truly fallen when she walked with her troops past the sentries of the Duke’s camp. She gave them a quick nod which they returned, and they were in. There was a cluster of different campfires, and the men and few women of the Twin Plains army stood or sat around muttering to each other.

‘Now we go to work, so split up and do try not to get killed,’ she said to her comrades, and then walked to the nearest campfire. The others did the same, walking in various directions, and slowly made their way through the camp.

Josette sat down with the nearest group and regretted her choice straight away. The men who sat around her were all much older and they all had the black sash across their tunics, which meant they were Dark Guards. There were around twenty of them, some sitting by the fire and others in little clusters talking.

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