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I stopped partway to Duke Dwayne's estates for a chance to regroup. I looped the reins over a tree branch and knelt. I cried for a few minutes before I settled down. The anger had kept me sane enough to do what I had to do. Now that it was gone, my actions left an open wound. I didn't like it. I didn't have to like it. I knew that I had little choice in the matter.

Still on my knees, exhausted from my crying, I prayed.

Bright Lady, please forgive me.

I felt her sad smile while her warmth encompassed me. "I guess that I can't just have the good without some of the bad, can I, Bright Lady?"

I didn't need Her to answer that. I knew that this wasn't going to be all roses the first time that I fought the slavers and rescued Kira. I just hoped that I won't have to kill anyone else in cold blood. One was more than I could bear.

Thank you for listening, My Lady. I don't know what I would do without you.

I reluctantly got up and mounted the horse for the continued journey to the Duke's estate.

It was just before dawn when I entered the estate and gave the horses to the soldiers that came to greet me. Sensing my mood, none of them asked me any questions or even looked my way. I could still feel the darkness that I was projecting radiate from me in a continuous aura.

One of the men escorted me inside to Lord Richard, who was sitting by a morning fire nursing a mug of tea. I plopped down next to him after removing my sword and laid it across my knees.

"Charles, what do I ask first? What happened last night, or what did you do to anger Duke Steven?" He grimaced into his tea.

"I took the Lady Megan away from him." I shrugged with a nonchalance that I did not feel, "I happened to encounter one of his lackeys, Squire Michael, ordering Megan around, and I took exception to it. Our disagreement led to a duel. I killed Squire Michael and proclaimed the lady to be under my protection."

"Steven, the little shit, disagreed with me on that and tried make a scene. I warned him that the next time that he threatened me, I'd kill him." Goddess I was still pissed.

"By all that's holy, man! You can't just go around threatening dukes, you're lucky that he didn't have you thrown in irons!"

I laughed bitterly. "I had just finished taking apart his champion in less time than it takes to tell you about it. Mother Browynn was the Arbiter and most of the nobility of the city was there. I had him trapped. Besides, there was not one man in attendance that would have crossed swords with me that morning."

"Harrumph, well that was well done, at least." He took a sip and made a face. "Why wouldn't they cross swords with you? That doesn't make sense unless..." He looked at me again. "Charles, are you that good with the beast that you carry?" He asked pointedly.

Laughing bitterly I answered honestly. "Richard, I'm good enough for a High Priestess of Kassandra to give me her most promising Postulant to train under me, so that she can find out how to counter my style." I figured that one friend here would be nice to have, so I told him the truth.

Richard just let out a low whistle.

"That was after I nearly killed one of her Sisters in a duel."

Richard choked on his tea when I said that. "Blasted stuff, it tastes vile." But he did look long and hard at me. His manservant came out to refill his mug and offered me one. I accepted it politely. It did smell vile.

"Here I thought that that beast that you carry was just for show. No one but a barbarian carries a blade that long. They're too hard to use."

"It did take me years to master, Richard. I'm also taller, stronger and faster than anyone that I've met here."

"As for the assassin, well I returned her to her temple. She was a priestess of Bane."

It took Richard a minute to catch what I just implied. "Was? Elizabit said that she was alive when you left."

"She was, the High Priestess left me no choice in the matter."

"Bane, you say. Ugly business dealing with them." Richard interrupted.

"We did have a productive talk though. I convinced her that it was in their best interest to leave us be."

"Eh? How did you get them to agree to that?"

"Simple. I just took out a contract on myself for them to kill me when I turn ninety." I sat back and took a sip of the tea. I almost spit it out; it was terrible.

"By the Great Mother's Tits!" He exclaimed. "You have a set on you, don't you?" His manservant came out to see what the commotion was about. Richard shooed him off.

"Goddess, this tea is abysmal, Richard. How can you drink it?"

"This stuff? It's not that bad, and after I drink too much it helps with the headache." He stared at the tea like it was a lifeline.

"How's Megan? When I left she was having a tough time of it."

"Elizabit is with her now. She'll take care of the lass."

"That's a relief. I still have to sit down with her sometime soon and have a long talk." I grimaced.

"Smitten, are you? She is a beaut. Smart, too. If I didn't have my Elizabit, I'd contest you for her hand."

I raised my tea as if for a toast. "I'm glad that I don't have that to worry about. There is enough on my docket as it is." I snorted.

"Now that I blocked his assassin, I wonder what Steven has in store for me next?"

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"For shame, Guildmaster Trent. You will spoil Megan's homecoming. You can always be stuffy tomorrow Let her enjoy her family..." chastised a striking petite woman in an exquisitely tailored turquoise silk dress. She had matching combs that kept her long raven hair in place. I would place her a few years older than Megan with the same underlying beauty and poise to her elfin features. That they were closely related was obvious. "I apologize, Lady Yolanda, but this man broke the law. It is...

Patron Saint of a Hundred Hangovers

Patron Saint of a hundred hangovers knows the score of the Game. He doesn’t bother with trifles like friends & family, jobs & jabber, he has all the answers in one cupped hand. Sitting atop a glass mountain with a nose of broken blood vessels, he laughs at all the little people below, scurrying everywhere with so little to show for it. When their disillusioned young approach for tutelage he simply slurs. ‘Comeback to me when you can claim Jack Daniels as Kin, grasshoppers. The road to...

Sword Saint a New StartChapter 4Home sweet home

It was late and I was tired when we arrived. Kira nearly fell off her horse trying to dismount and rushed to what looked like a body lying on the porch of the log cabin. I led the horses into a barn that was just off the side of the house and put one horse in each of the stalls. There was already one horse in its own stall. I saw a shovel that was hung in the barn and set it aside, figuring that it was going to be a long evening burying the dead. As I was walking out of the barn, Kira limped...

Sword Saint a New StartChapter 5 Were in the Friggin Boonies

Kira had given me some of her brother's clothes to wear since I only had the one outfit that I arrived in. They were a little loose and way too short but that was just fine for working out in. I spent the next morning going through the forms with my katana; I had the feeling that I was going to need to become a lot better, real soon, before I made a fatal mistake. Kira, after making breakfast for us, went and took care of the horses. I found out later that she had also washed our clothes,...

Sword Saint a New StartChapter 6 Doomed Doomed I say

I awoke to the rustling and light scraping of pans being quietly moved about. Kira was up before dawn making breakfast again. Rubbing the sleep from my eyes, I uncomfortably tried to reduce my morning stiffness. After grabbing my flannel shirt I headed towards the door with the shirt blocking my boxers and I headed to the outhouse for my morning ablutions. I could see the false dawn ending with hope of the sun having to fight to clear the forested mountains of the horizon. I really have...

Sword Saint a New StartChapter 11 To choose or not to choose

Breakfast was filling as usual; since it was before dawn I was barely moving. The women were a chorus of efficiency led by the grand matron as conductor. I repeated my request of extra changes of clothes for Meri. Kira, hearing this, took off crying. Damn, I'd hoped that Grandma Kira had talked to her. I pointed to Meri, "Go find Kira and tell her that I request her presence here, then find Grandma Kira and ask her to come here too. You can finish your breakfast when you return." She...

Sword Saint a New StartChapter 12 Was that supposed to be a left turn at Albuquerque

We rode for two hours at a steady pace, and then I made us dismount and walk for an hour before we stopped to have an early lunch. Fresh baked bread and cheese with decent ale to wash it down, it was a very good meal. I asked Meri about her life up to now, and while reluctant to talk about it, she did go into light detail. It seems that her Papa was one of the slavers that I killed. She was brought up by her Aunt Virginia, a strict baker, while her Papa was off on raiding missions. A few...

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