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  1. Sherwood Smith _ Crown Duel

    You, there, girl! Halt!"Who in the ever halts when the enemy tells them to?Of course I took off in the opposite direction, as fast as I could."
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  2. Sherwood Smith _ Crown Duel

    He mounted behind me and we started off, while I indulged myself with the image of grabbing that stick and conking him right across his smiling face.
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  3. Sherwood Smith _ Crown Duel

    Shevraeth himself was there to bid us farewell--a courtesy I could have done without.
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  4. Sherwood Smith _ Crown Duel

    So my only hope, therefore, was to make him so angry he'd kill me outright and save us both a lot of effort.These were my cheery thoughts--not that my head was any too clear.
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  5. Sherwood Smith _ Crown Duel

    Instead my inner eye kept returning to the memory of our people running before a mass of orderly brown-and-green-clad soldiers, overseen by a straight figure in a black cloak riding back and forth along a high ridge.
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  6. Sherwood Smith _ Crown Duel

    In my mind I saw, clearly, that straight-backed figure on the dapple-gray horse, his long black cloak slung back over the animal's haunches, his plumed helm of command on his head. With either phenomenal courage or outright arrogance he had ignored the possibility of our arrows, the crowned sun stitched on his tunic gleaming in the noonday light as he directed the day's battle.
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  7. Sherwood Smith _ Crown Duel

    All I can report is that I felt pretty sick, nearly as sick as I'd been when I fell into Ara's chickenyard. Sick at heart as well, for I knew there was no escape for Meliara Astiar after all; therefore I resolved that my last job was to summon enough presence of mind to die well.
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  8. Sherwood Smith _ Crown Duel

    Not one of the passerby showed the least interest in the proceedings. I wondered if I had missed yet another chance at escape, but if I did yell for help, who knew what the partisanship of the Lumm merchants was? I might very well have gotten my mouth gagged for my pains.This did not help my spirits any, for now that the immediate discomforts had eased, I realized again that I was sick. How could I effect an escape when I had as much spunk as a pot of overboiled noodles?
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  9. Sherwood Smith _ Crown Duel

    I thought scornfully. I wished he were before me. I wished I could personally flout him and his busy searchers, and make him look like the fool he was. And watch the reaction, and walk away laughing.
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  10. Sherwood Smith _ Crown Duel

    I do not like to remember that trip.Not that I was awake for much of it--for which I am grateful. I kept sliding in and out of consciousness, and believe me, the were much more welcome than the
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  11. Sherwood Smith _ Crown Duel

    You might contemplate the purpose of a court…" You brainless, twaddling idiot, I thought scornfully. I wished he were before me. I wished I could personally flout him and his busy searchers, and make him look like the fool he was. And watch the reaction, and walk away laughing.
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  12. Sherwood Smith _ Crown Duel

    I just wanted to see if you traitors would dare to face me," Galdran said, his caustic voice making me feel sick inside. Sick--and angry.The Marquis bowed low over his horse's withers, every line of his body indicative of irony.Galdran's face flushed dark purple."I confess," Shevraeth drawled, "we had a small wager on whether you would have the courage to face us.
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