The Two of Swords, Volume 1 by K. J. Parker

Author:K. J. Parker
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction / Fantasy / Epic, Fiction / Fantasy / Historical, Fiction / Action & Adventure, Fiction / War & Military, Fiction / Men’S Adventure
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2017-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

That night, for the first time he could remember, Daxen was actually warm. He had two charcoal fires, one on either side of him. He was a little nervous at first—the Emperor Glycerian, returning in triumph from the Second Jazygite War, had died in his tent, asphyxiated by the fumes from a charcoal stove—but after an hour or so he found he was still alive, so it was probably all right. Someone had found an amazing treasure in a remote storage room: a palm’s width thick with dust, nine barrels of fermented cabbage, a little bit cottony on top but perfectly good otherwise, and four barrels of salted herrings. That, and all the water you could drink. Someone had tentatively suggested that really they ought to share it with the men, but someone else had pointed out that the ration would be one thin strand of cabbage and a pinhead of herring each, which would just be a waste. Rank, they decided, had its privileges. General Ixion always said that, and the men respected him for it. Besides, only the officers and two quartermaster-sergeants knew about it, so that was fine.

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