The Devil You Know: 3 short stories - One from The Book of the Ancestor, two from The Red Queen's War by Lawrence Mark

Author:Lawrence, Mark [Lawrence, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2021-10-18T00:00:00+00:00

And just like that, I was walking away from what looked like being the sharp point of the whole summer’s campaign, with twenty seasoned spearmen to protect me should I happen to encounter a particularly gruff goat.

“We’ll break here for lunch.” I sat back on a suitably sized boulder.

Sergeant Thrum approached me, lowering his head and his voice. “We’ve come less than a mile, sir.”

“And we have a long way to go, Sergeant! No point exhausting the men just before a battle. Now, where’s that cheese? And did we bring the wine?”

“I don’t think we did, sir.” The sergeant paused. “And it’s hours yet `til noon. The sun’s only just—”

“Lunch!” I repeated in my best princely roar and waved for the men to sit.

It turned out that there was wine and, as the only royalty present, I took charge of it. The cheese wasn’t too bad, some kind of rustic creation, and whilst the bread did have roughly the same consistency as the boulder I’d jumped onto, it was far from the worst meal I’d had since joining the army. I hadn’t joined of my own free will, of course. My father had made it very clear that the Red Queen expected it of me. And when that didn’t work, six large soldiers had dragged me from my rooms at the palace.

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