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of us and killed two guards, outright, but the missiles did no permanent harm to the two Undying, ofcourse. The one that sped toward me failed to strike me solidly, thank Sun and Wind, it just tore throughmy shirt and furrowed my arm before killing the guard behind me. Before Lord Milo could make himselfheard, the living guardsmen had made a blood pudding out of the man… but they couldn’t be blamed forit, they knew their duty and they did it despite the terror they all must have felt of that witchy weapon.
“Of course, I’d seen and heard one like it before that—a bigger, much longer one. She called that one aryfuhl, that damned Witchwoman who’d set herself up as ‘goddess’ of those outlaw Ganiks, the ones wefought for Prince Byruhn.
“Hmmm, what was her name, now? In nigh eighty years, a man can forget so much.”
As old Bili’s mind, cloudy now with drugs and age and suffering, sought recall of the name of that
Witchwoman who had so many years before, led the savage, cannibal Ganiks in the then-unknownmountains to the west and south of the Ahrmehnee lands, he began once again to relive those excitingtimes. It had been those times which had given birth to the legend of Bili the Axe.
