The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow collection) by Alix E. Harrow

Author:Alix E. Harrow [Harrow, Alix E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amazon Original Stories
Published: 2022-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

You were not old when the Saint came to you that final time, but you were older than you’d ever been before.

You were encamped in the hills above a wide valley, where the Queen of Kemet and her vast army waited to meet you at daybreak. You could see their torches stretching into the distance, numberless, insurmountable.

Your squire combed his fingers through your hair long after the knots were gone. After a while, he said, “You cannot win against this.”

“Perhaps not,” you said.

“Why fight, then? For a few songs? For him?” Then the whisper, the question you heard sometimes in your sleep, “Is it worth it?”

You stood and turned, looking down at your squire, your companion, your only friend. You were angry, and because it was a crime to be angry at your Emperor and a sin to be angry with me, you were angry with him. You wanted to shout at him, but your throat had closed too tightly to speak, and in the end, you never answered.

The Saint was with you the next day, and you fought as fiercely and perfectly as anyone has ever fought.

It was not enough.

They carried you off the field with an arrow in your left eye. The last thing you saw was your squire’s face, full of grief.

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