The Swallow's Tower by Andrzej Sapkowski

Author:Andrzej Sapkowski [Sapkowski, Andrzej]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473211568
Google: oPsArgEACAAJ
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 2016-05-19T03:00:00+00:00

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They rushed forward without looking back, clinging to the necks of their horses. The best horse had fallen to Angouleme, a bandit's small but spirited animal. Geralt's horse, a bay stallion with a Nilfgaardian bridle, began to wheeze and gasp and had trouble even keeping its head up. Cahir's horse, also from the military, was stronger and more enduring, but that made no difference because its rider was troubled. He reeled in his saddle, instinctively pressed his thighs together, and sprayed blood on the neck and mane of his mount. But he galloped on.

Angouleme, who had left behind the two, waited for them in a bend in the road at the place where it went downhill, between a wall of rocks.

‘The pursuers,’ she panted, with dirt smeared on her face. ‘They are repositioning themselves, they will not leave us in peace… The miners have seen where we fled. We cannot stay on the road… We need to dive into the woods, where there are no paths… They depend on…’

‘No,’ said the witcher in an alarmed voice, hearing the broken sounds from his horses lungs. ‘We must stay on the road… On the direct and shortest route to Sansretour…’

‘Why?’

‘Now is not the time to talk. Forward! Get everything you can out of the horses…’

They galloped. The witcher's bay stallion gasped.

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