Court of Shadows (Shadow Fae Book 1)

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The sun was beating down mercilessly that day, reminding all living things who was in charge and that deserts were cursed places at the best of times. Estevar, however, had investigated many supposed supernatural apparitions during his tenure as a Greatcoat, and quickly decided this one sounded more man than spectre. If this mission was successful, they would then do everything they could to make sure he stayed on the throne. Janva Slade,' the clerk said yet again, pausing for effect as if to draw to himself the attention of the sparse and sullen audience, 'who will this day challenge her sentence in a duella verdetto and by steel and whatever mercy the Gods grant her be judged! He who once defied kings now cowers beneath the covers inside his tower while madness and devilry reigns over that holiest of islands!

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Any time I’d asked whether perhaps there was a better way to earn a living, he’d slap me across the head and proudly declare, ‘Didn’t make the rules, don’t plan to break them. When he got within thirty yards of me, he stopped and stared as if trying to work out whether I was a mirage. My father, Lord Tiarren is one of the most respected generals in the Ducal army and a highly regarded duellist. Venerati Lazare declared, pressing the back of one hand against the palm of the other and holding them up towards the dangling corpse in a symbol of religious prayer.Corrigan was my friend, which was a hard thing to admit to myself and an even harder thing to find in this profession. He was about to give the mule’s flanks an encouraging nudge when a voice shouted out from the mists, ‘Hold where you are! The minute the big man had ducked under one of the frayed ropes tied around six rusted iron posts that marked off the fifteen-foot hexagon inside which we’d be fighting, he took up a position on the western-most corner.

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Several other poor bastards leaped to their deaths rather than waiting for Corrigan to take an interest in them.Next came the shimmer of a chainmail surcoat partly covered by a hooded cloak of pure white trimmed in silver and emblazoned with three azure eyes across the front. With the thumb and forefinger of each hand, I grasped the two-­headed coiled snake, ignoring the ink-­black tongues that flickered menacingly at me, pulled the spiral straight and attached a head to each of the other two sigils. Theories and conjectures do not fall within my purview, Eminence, nor was I sent here merely to await your displeasure.

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The flames inside the stone hearth danced, though it wasn’t immediately apparent to Estevar whether they were responding to the boy’s tune or from the wind that snuck in beneath the door and the gaps in the wooden slats that served for windows. Old, skinny guy with a long scraggly beard he probably trips over on the way to the bathroom in the middle of the night. The whispers became howls, and the howls turned to shrieks that sent poor, brave Quadlopo galloping away, abandoning me to whatever fate my bad luck and ill deeds had brought upon us. It is witchcraft, of course,’ concluded the mountainous Sir Galleato, dressed in plate armour despite the unpleasant heat emanating from the ornately carved marble fireplace at the end of the hall as well as the lack of there being anyone with which to do battle.If the girl was this frightened over what appeared to be little more than two men having it out with one another, perhaps she knew something he did not.