TangentChapter 17 The Reverse of the Coin
Freidal leaned back against a rock, weary beyond words. All night they had marched over ridge after ridge! After marching half the day before! His batman, Tiki, came and stood next to him. Freidal gestured for him to sit. The old sergeant laughed. "If I sit, it will take a half dozen hale men to move me again, Captain! Finding two tonight might be too much to expect." Freidal glanced at the bulk of the ridge looming in front of them. "I didn't hear pickets go up." The veteran...