Shira Calpurnia 3 - Blind by Warhammer

Author:Warhammer [Warhammer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

MASTER CHASTENER DAST lay on the apothecarion bed like a stone martyr on a tomb-slab. Orovene, reliquary box finally out of his hands, but the smell of lho-smoke back around him, stood at the foot of the bed, humming soft prayers, as an arbitor medicae ran his fingertips softly over the wounds in Dast's skull and face. The chastener didn't twitch as the medicae's deft touch probed the crushed parts of his face. His breathing was laboured and there was a bad grey cast to his skin.

The precinct medicae ward was tiny, and Calpurnia, small as she was, had to stand back to make room. She stood with her hands neatly behind her back, fighting the urge to just sag against the wall.

'Master Orovene tells me that he was alone when the attack came,' murmured the doctor, so low that it took Calpurnia a moment to realise that the man wasn't addressing himself.

'Not alone,' Orovene said, 'alone but for his attacker. The rest of us were in the Master's garden.'

'Madam arbiter senioris?' Orovene's expression darkened at the medicae's dismissive tone, but he said nothing.

'I can't add anything,' Calpurnia said. 'I was elsewhere, with Concordiast Ylante. I only just came away and returned directly here.'

She had been walking back through the cloisters when the runner had brought the news; from there, it had been a flat run for the

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