(Click here for links to other chapters.) “Is the lot guarded.” I interrupt father’s daydreams of a quick and easy solution. “A full company,” the Captain answers me. “Then we had better dig the rest of it up tomorrow, and see if there is anything else.” “You think there is more there?” Alan looks excited. … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 27-part 2
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Spire: Chapter 27-part 1
(Click here for links to other chapters.) It’s still six days before the full moon, and I have very little to do. There are discreet troop movements, men filtering into the city to augment the guard, but there isn’t time to summon regiments from any but the closest citadels. Scouts have gone out. We won’t … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 27-part 1
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I am having major problems with my internet. Mostly down, with random minutes when it is working fine. I’ve ordered a new cable modem, since mine is rather elderly when counting in technology years, and am talking to my provider. Since I started, I have posted every Monday (my time zone, of course). Admittedly, a … Continue reading Note
Spire: Chapter 26
(Click here for links to other chapters.) Kymr is stripped to the waist, setting on a stool, with a priest standing behind him holding a wet towel. One of Sister Mays nurses stands beside the priest holding a basin of the blessed and sanctified water. We have reached a deal with Kymr, and the farce … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 26
Spire: Chapter 25-part 2
(Click here for links to other chapters.) We send Lars to rest—I don’t think he slept at all last night—and I decide to find Jes and wander around town a bit. Jes is looking at the sky, as usual, but joins me anyway. “One of the Sorcerers, Blight, started packing, so he may be leaving … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 25-part 2
Spire: Chapter 25-part 1
(Click here for links to other chapters.) I watch Mynar closely, this is the third elaborate trial since spring—counting the haranguing of Ambassador Aker as the first—and I am certain he’s very near an eye roll. I don’t want to miss it. But I am not so absorbed in Mynar watching that I am not … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 25-part 1
Spire: Chapter 24
(Click here for links to other chapters.) Mother and father are busy deciding exactly how much to tell Lars. (I get the impression they really don’t want to tell him I talk to the Sword.) Mynar is working on his plan to use the assassin, and the Sorcerers are my problem. The sergeants and I … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 24
Spire: Chapter 23
(Click here for links to other chapters.) When I leave the keep later in the day, I find Jes still looking happily at the leaden grey sky. I walk over intending to find out, this time, why he wants snow so much, but before I reach him, the Guild Master of the leather workers runs … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 23
Spire: Chapter 22
(Click here for links to other chapters.) I find father in front of mother’s fire, both of them staring at it as if they have decided I should not be part of whatever conversation I’ve interrupted. I tell them about the rumors I’ve picked up, and stop there. For a moment, a very short moment, … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 22
Spire: Chapter 21
(Click here for links to other chapters.) It is two more days before Sister Mays and the priests are ready to remove the words. They have spent the two days debating removing the words one at a time, or immersing him in a bath, to remove all at once. One at a time won when … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 21
