（外文电子版资料）Tanya Huff - Death Rites.pdf

Default DEATH RITES by Tanya Huff Tanya Huff lives and writes in rural Ontario with her partner, four cats, and an unintentional chihuahua. After sixteen fantasies, she wrote her first space opera, Valors Choice (DAW, April 2000); her sequel to Summon The Keeper, called The Second Summoning, is a DAW March 2001 release. In her spare time she gardens and complains about the weather. AS the sun rose and the Seventh Army rose with it, the assassins body appeared, lifted up over the top of the fortress wall by unseen hands. Marshal Arnon! Holding his kilt, the marshal stepped out of his tent in time to hear the soft melon crack of the assassins head hitting stone as the body reached the end of its arc. Sound carries in these hills, he said thoughtfully, threading straps through buckles and cinching them tight. Kilt secured, he glanced up first at the wall and then at the senior of the two soldiers on guard. Was that what you wanted me to see? Yes, sir. The marshal nodded and turned on one bare heel back toward the tent. Tell Commander Zayit I want to see her immediately. You have my permission to leave your post. Sir, if Orban is dead… Marshal Arnon glanced up from his breakfast. I think we can safely say that Orban is dead, Commander. Yes, sir. Orbans death—added to Visolelas and Ganits—leaves the Seventh Army with only two assassins. Both are very young and wouldnt stand a chance against Commander Jolan—ex-Commander Jolan, she corrected hurriedly as the marshals expression darkened. Especially as Jolan has already dealt with Orban, Visolela, and Ganit? Commander Zayit winced at the question clearly not intended to be answered. The failure of the three assassins was, in a sense, the marshals failure, and he wasnt the sort of man whod appreciate the reminder. Theyd effortlessly regained the three villages that had fallen under the ex-commanders control, but First file:///K|/eMule/Incoming/Tanya%20%20Huff%20-%20Death%20Rites.html (1 of 18