The Forgotten Monk by Greg Stolze

Author:Greg Stolze [Stolze, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pelgrane Press
Published: 2015-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The dwarf lost consciousness after taking a fifteen-foot fall head first, but he was tough. He struggled back to awareness just in time to hear the last noise his partner made, an expulsion of air across tortured vocal cords best rendered as “Hwuuuughhhh!”

He got to his feet and looked up at the edge of the cliff. There was no way he was going up there fast, especially since poking his head above the edge would set it up for a kick in the teeth. Instead, he shook his head once, slowly. It was a gesture as easily read as clearing away dizziness as regret over abandoning a comrade. Then he started walking back toward Grossthorn’s camp, slowly picking up speed as he recovered.

The clang when a rock hit him from above was fairly loud. The sound of snapping bone when a second struck his arm as he fell flat was much quieter, especially since his shout of anger drowned it out. His bellows also drowned out the noise Cipher made as he slid down the nearly vertical cliff, both feet and one hand arresting his fall, until he propelled himself horizontally out, dagger raised, to drop point first on the prostrate dwarf, with all the weight of his falling body.

He tucked, rolled and came to his feet, pulling the dagger free with a squelch and a rasp against a helmet edge. There was a brief fountain of blood, but the heart driving it gave out fast.

Cipher paused to clean his blade on his last victim’s clothes, to flex his hands, and to stretch out his neck and back. Then, silent as a kitten, he crept away from the two dead bodies.

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