b'Along The Kingsroad participate in just now, I didnt think Iblades at the ready at the sound of By George Reyes could ever want to kill someone more.hooves approaching camp, and relieved But! Now youve forced me to kill a per- themselves of the stress as they saw Lucamore zipped across the roadfectly good horse. Just like that, ScumLucamore approach with the escaped with his family-inherited stead Brightin,like you has taken even more from us.convict. Lucamore was a bit proud of paralleling his escaped convict as heYou could have let it go Said thehow good their formation was, despite pushed forward on his stolen horse. IConvict, as he wheezed and coughed the gravity of the situation. will not fail the King. Not when it comeshis way back up to place his elbows onLucamore! Good, youve got him. to you.his knees.Thatll surely kill all the hope in the Bugger off! Yelled the convict, asDont talk back! Lucamore pulled outothers, ha! Boris and Lucamore shook he started steering the horse with thehis blade and smashed his face in withhands as they smiled at their triumphant left hand, and used the right to showthe hilt, the man cried as he spat out thevictory, and the loss of these glorified off steel. As he pulled out his blade, itlast front tooth he had. Oh, you are justgroup of bandits calling themselves gleamed with every inch thanks to thepathetic Get up! Get up, before I killgovernment reformers. burning sun, it looked freshly forged,you here and now! I could do it now ifAhh! No! Sydney So we have truly a sword worthy of inheritance even;you dont want to say goodbye to yourlost then. Said one of the prisoners. Thus Lucamore assumed it was stolen.brethrens. Id be glad to, really.The rest of our brothers will not Another one of his crimes to add to theAfter that statement, the man shot upforget! Let this not be seen as a loss of list. Lucamore prepared to meet steelperfectly and instantaneously and stoodthe war, weve simply played our part! with steel as he shifted his own handsalmost neck to neck with Lucamore.We can die happily! Said Sydney, from or so he wanted his prey to believe so.No. Ill not have it that they think Ivethe horse. The convict released a full throttledbetrayed them. We fought together.Oh shut up already! Said Lucamore swing towards Lucamore as soon as hisWeve won together, and now I will dieas he cut him off the horse and had him hand touched the blades hilt. Lucamorewith them.fall flat on his back. He then proceeded smiledFor now he knew he had him.A bit of honor, huh? Well, If you wereto kick him all the way in line with the Lucamore halted his horse as soonso certain to die with them, whyd yourest of the terrorists. Now he had them as he saw the convict reach up to therun and leave them in the dust?all. A complete success of operations. skies and scream, he had read him theI would have come back. When theHe would take this news back to the entirety of their brief journey, and theconvict said this, The smile he gaveKing and be instantly promoted. If not man fell, rolled, stumbled, and cried. TheLucamore chilled him to the boneinstantly promoted, he could at least horse he rode on; The one he stole, keptHe looked determined to instill fearbadger enough Coin out of him to take close, but started to venture off on itsinto him, as if the smile and look alonesome time off and rest up at home for own, Lucamore had decided he couldequaled the threat of an entire kingdoma bit. Regardless, this mission held no not risk it, and in one man. He looked away for a mo- losses for him. Its good they would die released a throwing knife into its ment, and stuck him back on the horsehappily as Sydney said, because he most ankle to incapacitate the convicts only with a rope to keep him ever so close.certainly is going to enjoy it. escape plan.Back at the camp, there stood threeAre you all prepared to face punish-Lucamore sighed and got off ofof Lucamores men, one his youngerment for your crimes? Said Lucamore Brightin. Between the ruckus you madebrother, Boris, and the others his bestas he stared indifferently to the rest of me cause at the town I located youmate Winston and his Squire Max. the men on the ground. He witnessed lot in, and the little race you made meThey stood by, watching and had theirno fear of his authority. And it angered 24SPARK 2024-25 |volume 16'