"Tanya Huff - Death Rites" - читать интересную книгу автора (Huff Tanya)

Bannon pulled the trigger on the crossbow.

The marshal jerked in the saddle, and began to fall, a crossbow quarrel buried deep in his left armpit.

Someone yelled, "There!"

An arrow hit the body Vree held.

She shoved it forward.

It hit the stones of the courtyard at the time same as the marshal.

The Emperor's orders had been explicit.

Throats slit in the night. Black starbursts left behind.

So many people never bothered thinking past the obvious.

Commander Zayit barely heard the beating of ravens' wings over the pounding of her heart. Then they
landed, one, two, three by the marshal's body.

"Commander?"

Without knowing why, she looked up. Past the traitor's body broken on the ground, up to where black
shadows moved back out of the light. And she remembered another broken body that had lain like a
shadow on the road.

"Commander?"

Some urgency in the question now. The fortress was so quiet, she could hear the impact of a heavy beak

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through flesh.

Marshal Arnon had been right.

The Emperor had taken care of it.

"Let them feed."




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