The voices pierced Duncan’s own, and brought him jerkily about. Three! A yellow-bearded man in spike-topped hel-met and chainmail; a short, leather-coated, fur-capped rider on a rearing pony; a tall, slender woman in knee-length white dress. And Duncan Reid.
The horseman got his mount under control. At once he snatched a double-curved bow that hung at his saddle, an arrow from the quiver beside, and had the weapon strung and armed. The blond man roared and lifted an ax. The woman drew a knife of reddish metal.
Reid struggled to wake from this nightmare….
Tor books by Poul Anderson
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
The Armies of Elfland
The Boat of a Million Years
Hoka I (with Gordon R. Dickson)
Kinship with the Stars
Tales of the Flying Mountains
L Sprague and Catherine de Camp
And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
And the first angel sounded and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
And the second angel sounded and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
