Temple of a Thousand Faces by John Shors

Author:John Shors
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781101598665
Publisher: NAL Trade
Published: 2013-02-05T06:00:00+00:00

At the scene of the attack, the rear guard of the Cham force had regrouped and driven the Siamese back, away from the burning carts and the dead. Indravarman, flanked by his personal guards, fought like a wild beast, his great strength making his sword fast and deadly. Veteran Siamese warriors seemed to offer him no more resistance than children. Enraged by their ambush, he cut them down one by one, pressing into the jungle. Though his officers tried to halt his counterattack out of concern for his safety, he led his men forward, coated in his enemies’ blood. He knew that even with the success of his strike, his army had been crippled. Hundreds of his men were dead or injured, and he would have to withdraw back to Angkor and regroup. Jayavar would live to see another day.

After he beheaded a Siamese with a sweeping sword stroke, Indravarman realized that Asal had been right. The disappearance of the scouts should have prompted caution. His enemies were running away, and the king turned, looking for Asal, knowing he had been at the front of the column where the worst fighting had taken place.

Are you dead? Indravarman wondered. Did the Siamese take your life before I could?

The Chams who still stood shouted in triumph, though Indravarman realized that in most ways he had been beaten. Cursing the dead Siamese, stepping on their bodies, he made his way back to the burning carts. He saw Thida sobbing against the base of a tree. Po Rame was already interrogating a wounded enemy warrior. Most of Indravarman’s other officers were present. But where was Asal? If he had died, where did his body lie? If he lived, where had he gone?

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