The Secular Wizard by Christopher Stasheff

Author:Christopher Stasheff
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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side, eyes glowing as she watched two stalwart youths face off, each with a knife, one with his shirt open and the love bite already swelling on his chest, the other with a day-old mark on his neck and all his clothes buttoned more tightly than he no doubt wished.

"Villain! She is mine!" He shouted, and leaped forward, slashing at his rival.

Chapter Thirteen

The rival jumped back, but not far enough-a streak of crimson appeared across his belly. The girl screamed, though whether with horror, delight, or both, Matt couldn't tell. The rival blanched and leaped farther back-into a wall of hands that shoved him forward to meet the blade of his foe. He howled with anger and slammed a fist into the other man's jaw-a fist with a knife sticking up from the top. The jealous lover reeled back, blood welling from a gash on his cheek, then charged back with a roar.

The rival lunged, but the jealous lover blocked the blade with a cloth-wrapped fist and struck for the chest. The rival blocked, but he had no wrapping, and the blade nicked his knuckles. He shoved hard with a shout of rage, though, then sprang back to yank a shawl from a woman in the crowd, who shrieked protest-but he paid no attention, only began whipping his fist in circles to wrap the cloth around his forearm as a shield.

The jealous lover struck before he could finish.

The rival blocked and stabbed, but the jealous lover blocked, too, and they sprang apart.

The crowd booed.

They actually booed, incensed that nobody had been slashed. That did it. Matt decided he had to put a stop to this, somehowespecially since he was hearing angry shouts from two other places in the crowd, and quick glances showed a fistfight breaking out off to the left, and a couple of older men going after each other with cud-gels, off on the right. Matt swung his lute into firing position, took

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