But standing between her and her goal is a band of deadly mercenaries playing a dangerous game of their own.Īnd in the East, Seth Korion's Lost Legions must navigate treacherous roads to gain safety, bearing secrets that could bring down the Emperor. In Javon, Cera Nesti, the imprisoned queen, has been freed, and plots to take on the overwhelming might of the Rondian Empire. They have lost the Scytale of Corineus, the key to the Rite of Ascendancy, as well as one of Ramita's infant sons, to the hands of their deadliest enemies. With this, she reaches up, takes hold of the shoulder of her dress, and rips it diagonally across her body down to the hip.The last few months of the moontide-when the bridge connecting East and West rises above the sea-has come, and in the West Emperor Constant prepares the final phase of his plan to conquer the East.įor failed mage Alaron and his companion Ramita-widow to the mage who built the Leviathan Bridge-the unthinkable has happened. “But we w/ere just starting to.” she pauses here and draws a long, ragged breath. In the meantime, might I point out that the curtain is already up and you have been entrusted with a rather important role in our performance?” “Look, Tananda,” I growl, lowerin’ my voice so’s only she can hear me, “I apologize if our timin’ is less than exact. Seein’ as how Junebug is distracted, which I can tell by the way his eyes are rollin’ around independent-like in his head, I turn my attention to Tananda once more. “She isn’t worth it!! We don’t want no trouble!!!” “Calm down, Junebug!” my cousin is shoutin’. He has done this to me on a couple of occasions, so I can state from personal experience that while it may look like he is tryin’ to help you clear your head, the actualities of the situational is that after hittin’ the wall a few times, you’re lucky to remember your name, much less why he is carryin’ on in this manner. Of course, on the out-stroke, he is also slammin’ our colleague into the wall in a repeated manner solidly enough to shake the buildin’. Nunzio is holdin’ Junebug high enough that his feet are not touchin’ the floor, hangin’ onto him by the front of his uniform while shakin’ him hard. Now, this is not part of our planned dialogue, and I glance over at Junebug quick like to see if he has noticed that Tananda has let it slip that we know each other.
“Damn it, Guido! Not yet!!” she hisses, glarin’ at me as she struggles into a sittin’ position. “Are you okay, lady?” I sez in my loudest voice, which projects pretty well thanks to my old drama coach.
Nunzio latches on to Junebug, liftin’ him clear of the sofa whilst I turns my attentions to Tananda. Still, as we have made our entrance, my cousin and me have little choice but to continue with the script as originally planned. Tananda and Junebug are in a huddle on the sofa, but any noise she is makin’ is not screams of outrage. To our startlement, there is no altercation occurrin’ in the room. which I am not too busy to notice is considerably nicer than the room Frumple gave me yesterday.
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that is, it’s supposed to be “confusion”!Īnyway, the door goes down, as doors are inclined to do when I hit them goin’ full tilt, and the two of us pile into the room.
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I have specifically mentioned our objective of “confusion” so that youse folks readin’ this will not think your brains have suddenly gone Fruit Loops while tryin’ to sort out this next series of events. “That shouldn’t be hard,” I snarl, and launch myself at the door.