“Okay,” said Hessler, peeking around the sitting room corner at the chaos, “the important thing is not to do anything hasty.” “Hasty in what sense?” Tern asked, and cocked her crossbow. “If they fight each other,” said Hessler, “we may be able to sneak out undetec…” Tern stepped around the corner, leveled her crossbow, and fired a bolt that exploded out into several coils of what Hessler suspected was yvkefer-lined chain. It snared the black-armored man as justicars lunged in at him. “…ted. Like that! Hasty like that!” “Well, you could have been less ambiguous,”
