The Fall of Lostport by R.J. Vickers

Author:R.J. Vickers [Vickers, R.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2017-10-18T06:00:00+00:00

Conard slept so soundly that he didn’t startle awake until most of the laborers had finished breakfast. Groggy and disoriented, he stumbled from his tent and knelt by a stream to splash water on his face. Every muscle ached, and none worse than his shoulders.

Breakfast was already being cleared away; he barely had time to grab two rock-hard rolls before he was shooed out of the dining tent. Gnawing on one of them, wishing for butter, he followed a pair of familiar faces back to the stack of bricks he had been working at the day before. Then he stopped in dismay.

The pile was exactly the height it had been the previous morning. Overnight, someone had added seventeen bricks to the pile until it rose fifty high once more.

Nearby, the other builders were muttering and stomping around in dismay. When Captain Drail strode from the trees, he cleared his throat and barked, “What’s the holdup? You’ll be hauling bricks for the rest of your sorry lives if you don’t get a move on!”

Conard cursed and kicked at the closest brick, which just made his toe ache. There was no way in a thousand years he would be able to carry fifty of the bloody things in one day. No way.

He wanted to quit. That night he would turn and head straight up the pass and follow the forest road back to Lostport. Then he would jump on the first boat heading north.

And they would see his exile’s bands. Conard rubbed his wrists in frustration and lifted the first brick.

There was no turning back now.

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