Grim Company Omnibus by Luke Scull

Author:Luke Scull
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Sir Meredith’s nose wrinkled with distaste as he held the torch out over the cesspit. If his peers at the royal palace could see him now, why, they would soil their own robes laughing. Once he had been the Sword Lord, a champion of the Circle and First Knight of the King. Now he was aide-de-camp to a mad barbarian who was currently scrabbling around in a literal shithole. How the mighty had fallen.

‘May this accursed country and everyone in it drown in shit!’ he swore, unable to stop himself.

‘Reckon you could hold that torch still and shut the fuck up?’ the King shouted up at him from the pit.

Sir Meredith stiffened. If any other man had dared address him in that tone, he would have challenged them to a duel instantly. He had killed men for less back in Tarbonne. Yet somehow he managed to keep silent. An admirable feat of self-control, he told himself. He wasn’t afraid of the one-eyed barbarian King. Fear had absolutely nothing to do with it.

‘She’s gone!’ roared Krazka. ‘That bitch is gone! Get down here! All of you.’

The Kingsmen climbed down into the pit. Sir Meredith came last, cursing and blustering with every step, his armour feeling as though it weighed as much as a horse. He reached the bottom and felt his boots squelch on something unpleasant. He winced, and then he brought his torch up and looked around.

A moment later he saw the broken cage. Shattered pieces of wicker floated in pools of stinking piss and muddy faeces. It would have taken a strong man indeed to have hacked apart the prison and freed its occupant. Sir Meredith met Krazka’s gaze, and even the human effluence surrounding them was a pleasant sight compared with the fury burning in that lone orb.

‘Yorn,’ rasped the King.

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