“So where are we off to tonight?” the boy asked. We? Now that was too much. Ash halted in the center of the empty square. “Just what is it you want?” The boy scratched his ear and shrugged. “To see you thrash someone new. Give some fellow what’s coming to him.” “Well, then.” Ash lifted his walking stick and gave the lad a shove with the blunt end, sending him arse-first into the shrubbery. “There you have it.”
