the troll raised his club, big as a tree, and the next moment Luke jumped, made one of his impossible leaps from an impossible point high above them, and landed crouched before the troll with his sword already drawn. The blade blazed in the sunlight, and so did his hair, and the child behind Elliot gave a glad cry as if recognizing a prince come to save her. Luke caught the troll by surprise. He rushed at him, and ran him through. Through the belly, and when the troll fell to his knees Luke wrenched the blade out of his belly and drove the point home to his heart. The troll crumpled forward, a
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