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summoning up the ghost of Aunt Matilda for an insight into next week’s lottery numbers was dull; a maniac with a pointy beard unleashing an army of skeletal warriors, however, was fun.
Tell me, Count, how did you learn to fence? Correspondence course?”
For the few people who were in the lounge with Cabal, bracing themselves seemed to consist mainly of gripping their drinks with both hands.
He calculated possible schemes. Plan A consisted of punching her in the stomach and heaving her through the window. It was direct and effective, but there were certain practical drawbacks that mitigated against its use. He didn’t have a Plan B.
he could be up and out of the well of sleep faster than a rabbit from a trebuchet.
Chapter 7 IN WHICH CABAL IS IN TERRIBLE DANGER AND THEN HAS BREAKFAST
Cabal could not have been more horrified if she’d pulled off her face to reveal a gaping chasm of eternal night from which glistening tentacles coiled and groped. That had already happened to him once in his life, and he wasn’t keen to repeat the experience.
He is taken into custody, put on trial, and sent to prison for a period of, allowing for good behaviour, forever.
Sighing heavily, for he disliked violence generally and murder in particular, Cabal set off to commit violent murder.
“If wishes counted for anything, neither of us would be in our current situations, Miss Barrow. You concede that I had no choice, however?” “No.” “Close enough. Which brings us to my second question. If you would care to join me behind this barrel, I will explain.”
Cacon had seen better days. To be precise, every day up to this one had been better, for today was the day that some unkind soul had stuck a long, thin-bladed knife into him and twisted it, and so murdered him.
“Cabal? If we should live through this, please, promise me—” She stepped forward, falling to all fours as she did so to grab the pylon edges. “Yes?” “Promise me that you’ll never become a motivational speaker.”
The journey was uneventful in all respects, unless one counts the business with the spy and the bandits and the Elemental Evil and the end of the world as we know it. So, no. Nothing one might call noteworthy.
