The Alchemist's Revenge by Martin Archer

Author:Martin Archer [Archer, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-22T04:00:00+00:00

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We were looking out of the archer slits of the wall above the gate and could hear the distant sounds of fighting, but we could not see much what was happening because of the great clouds of dust. The sounds continued to move further and further away until the middle of the very hot afternoon.

At first only a few of the returnees brought in weapons for coins, and what they brought was mostly just a spear or two. According to my new translator, they were the men who had gone out so they could say they had done so—and then quickly returned so they could stay alive a bit longer. He spit towards them as he described them.

“It is a good sign that so few of the states' men have come in early,” Henry Soldier suggested hopefully as he stood with his hands up to shield his eyes from the sun. He was doing what we had all been doing all day long—futilely attempting to look into the dust cloud hanging over the Greek camp to see what was happening. “It means those who want coins are still out there fighting to get them.”

After a brief pause he added, “We can hear them even if we cannot see them.”

Commander Courtenay was apparently not so sure. He just grunted to acknowledge that he had heard, not that he agreed or disagreed. But he said nothing and just continued to stand on the wall above the gate and watch both the Greek camp and the roadway below with its coin wagons on either side of it and the large group of camp followers who were now waiting anxiously five or six hundred paces beyond the coin wagons. A line of archers and Varangians kept them there.

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