Swords Against Death (Lankhmar, 2)

by Fritz Leiber

(each desiring to see more of his dead girl or nothing at all),

At that moment, their interviews with their beloveds huge in their memories, to encounter Death seemed the best thing in the world to them, the most to be desired, whether to kill life’s awfulest creature, or by him be killed.

Yet as they galloped along, Fafhrd couldn’t help thinking of how Vlana was ten years older than he, and had looked all of that and more in the Shadowland, while the Mouser’s mind couldn’t avoid touching the topic of Ivrian’s

basic silliness and ...

ridden even harder than they rode their powerful white and black

horses by that cosmically champion jockey Fear, out of the Shadowland southwest by the straightest path possible.