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I was proud of the thrust, it being something I’d practised as much as my witless expression, the blade opening the required veins at the first slice.
living for the descriptions already
With one hand he stole and the other he gave, as one particularly execrable ballad would have it. Brave Deckin of the woods, strong and kind he stood.
Robin Hood???
The balladeers would have it that Lorine D’Ambrille was the famously fair daughter of a distant lordling who fled her father’s castle rather than suffer an arranged marriage to a noble of ill repute and vile habits.
as she should have
The Shavine Forest is a hungry place and fresh meat rarely lasts long when the wind carries its scent through the trees.
Being as much a pragmatic coward as he was a vicious dog,
I like that insult
then, striking swift like a snake, would stab out one of his eyes. Then there would be more cooing assurances before he took the other.
ew that's grim
Deckin apparently kept secrets from her too.
never good to keep secrets from the person you're in a relationship with
even now I feel not the slightest inclination towards a visit, for there is nothing there to see and no one to kill.
Alwyn may be funny but this tells me his is definitely an outlaw
I shifted my scowl into as bright and cheerful a smile as I could muster, knowing it would stoke his anger worse than any retort.
he does make me giggle
The previous summer I had seen this man split a guardsman’s skull fully open with a hatchet, the blow delivered without any hesitation or utterance of scripture.
sure has a way with words
“We were supposed to have fucked off well before now, you mad bastard.”
Should have worked alone
As you continue to partake of the tale set down in these pages, dear reader, you will fully understand why there hasn’t been a day since when I haven’t regretted not contriving a means of cutting his throat that night.
Loving the fourth wall breaks. Cannot wait to find out why!
“Get off, you lying gobbler of donkey cocks,”
Iconic insult
And so, into the woods I was borne, made an outlaw once again.
Cliffhanger much!
