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The rearguard stu off ar a soldier wheeling with the barbed shaft through his neck The first of the Pannion Scalandi appeared, lithe, leather-shirted and leather-heled swords, a feicker shields, pushing against the yielding line of Lestari heavy infantry, dying one after another, yet stillwarcry
’Break! Break!’
The bellowed couard suddenly disengaged, spun round and bolted down the corridor, leaving their fallen behind -- to be claiht Then the skireway
The first line of Grey Swords re-formed in the wake of the Lestari Crossbows snapped Scores of Scalandi fell, their writhing bodies fouling the efforts of those behind them Gruntle watched as the Grey Swords calmly reloaded
A few from the front line of skirmishers reached the mercenary swordsmen, and were su past their fallen kin, surged towards the line
They withered beneath another flight of quarrels The passageas filling with bodies The next mob of Scalandi to appear were unarmed Whilst the Grey Swords loaded their crossbows oncekin back through the passageway
The door to the left-side block tower sla for his Gadrobi cutlasses, to see a half-dozen Capanthall stu them: Stonny Menackis
Her rapier was snapped a hand’s length down fro the bell-hilt and its projecting quillons, was thick with huloved hand and va skewered on the thin blade of the e Her expensive leather ar penetrated deep enough to cut through the padded shirt underneath Leather and shirt had fallen away to reveal her right breast, the soft, white skin bearing bruises left behind by someone’s hand
She did not see hiatehere the last of the corpses had been cleared, and yet another wave of Scalandi was pouring through The front ranks fell to the quarrels, as before, but the surviving attackers rushed on, a frenzied, shrieking mob
The four-deep line of Grey Swords split oncefor the nearest alley to either side of Port Street, where Capanthall archers stood, waiting for a cleared line of sight on the Scalandi pursuers
Stonny barked a command to her few comrades, and the small troop backed away, parallel to the wall She then saw Gruntle
Their eyes locked