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Swords Against Death [Book 2 of the "Fafhrd and Gray Mouser" series]
by Fritz Leiber
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Copyright (c)1995 by Fritz Leiber


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*I: The Circle Curse*
A tall swordsman and a small one strode out the Marsh Gate of Lankhmar
and east along Causey Road. They were youths by their skin and suppleness, men
by their expressions of deep-bitten grief and stony purpose.
The sleepy guardsmen in browned-iron cuirasses did not question them.
Only madmen and fools willingly leave the grandest city in the world of
Nehwon, especially at dawn and afoot. Besides, these two looked extremely
dangerous.
Ahead the sky was bright pink, like the bubbling rim of a great crystal
goblet brimmed with effervescent red wine for delight of the gods, while the
paler pink glow rising therefrom drove the last stars west. But before the sun
could glare one scarlet sliver above the horizon, a black storm came racing
out of the north over the Inner Sea -- a sea-squall making landfall. It grew
almost as dark again as night, except when the lightning stabbed and the
thunder shook his great iron shield. The stormwind carried the salty tang of
the sea commingled with the foul reek of the marsh. It bent the green swords