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‘Finadd,’ the squad leader said upon arriving, ‘we had some luck The brother at the far lookout was flushed out into the street by a pack of Edur He took six of the bastards doith him Once the Edur left I sent Crillo out to make sure he was dead-’

‘He was cut to pieces,’ Crillo interrupted, grinning

‘-and he was at that,’ the squad leader resurin broadened

‘And the other?’ Gerun asked, scanning the vicinity It wouldn’t do to run into a coht now

The squad leader scowled ‘Crillo got ’im A damned lucky knife-throw-’

‘No luck at all,’ Crillo cut in ‘Poor bastard never kneas coht out the rest of us-’

‘They’re both dead?’ Gerun asked Then shook his head ‘Luck indeed It should not have been that easy All right, that leaves the one on the roof He’ll have been looking for signals fro, he’ll knoe’re co’

‘It’s just one et overconfident just because the Errant’s nudged our way so far All right, we stay as a group now-’ He stopped, then gestured everyone low

Thirty paces ahead and coure ran into the street A Tiste Edur wo Before she had a chance to look their way, she heard soht hand revealed that she carried a knife of so the same direction as he was An undefended Tiste Edur wo her Once his other business was out of the way, of course Might let the lads have a go, too Crillo first, for the work he’d already done getting rid of Brys’s dahtened ‘After her, then, since it’s on the way’

Dark laughs from his troop

‘Take point, Crillo’

They set out

Faces behind shutters at second floor s – the whole city cowered like half-drowned rats It was disgusting But they were showing hi him ho deserved to live This new empire of the Tiste Edur would be little different, he suspected There would need to be controllers, deliverers of swift and incorruptible justice People would continue to be rude Would continue to litter the streets And there would still be people ere just plain ugly, earning the mercy of Gerun’s knife He would have his work, as before, to make this city a place of beauty-

They had reached the place where the wo round, pointing in the direction she had run, when a spear struck his head, spinning him round in a mass of blood, brain and shattered bone

From the alley rushed a score or more Tiste Edur warriors

‘Take them!’ Gerun Eberict coe forward