Only through sheer force of will had this courageous woman survived this long. “Honorable combat only though, so don’t get any crazy ideas,” I replied. xnx That look gave me such a rush. “Eberhard, my friend,” I said as we clasped arms in greeting, “This victory would not have been possible without you.”
“You are too kind, Lord Aurkyn. But I swiftly put that thought out of mind. Mindful of what Sigurd had said about the possibility of a plague, I spent much of the evening inspecting the houses of healing. The last straw was the warm sausage of shit that squelched beneath my boot as I tried to navigate around one of the healers. But you are thrallsvar, not slave.”
That statement confused her enough that she dropped her sarcasm.
