A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles #1)

by Foz Meadows

I didn’t know whether I’d acted as I had because I wanted to live, or because I hoped to die; only that, either way, I hadn’t succeeded.

Swallowing hard, he said, “You fainted?” “Only a little.” “You fainted.” “Yes.” “Out of the way of a crossbow bolt?” “I am a man,” croaked Velasin, with as much dignity as he could muster under the circumstances, “of many talents.”