Horseclans 10 – Bili the Axe – Adams, Robert

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possible that you’ll have widespread support from Bili’s people, since you’re related to him, but don’t go wasting a lot of time trying to woo or win over any who seem hostile or uncooperative—replace them immediately they demonstrate an unwillingness to change their ways to suit the new regime. Your strength lies in the west, among your relatives, so recruit there, in the western duchies and the Ahrmehnee

stahn—Morguhn, Sanderz-Vawn, Baikuh, Skaht, and Kamruhn—and you might farspeak Prince

Roodee of Kuhmbuhluhn; perhaps he has some likely men he can send you. You two are related, aren’t you?”

“Rather distantly,” replied Tim. “His grandmother… no, great-grandmother, I think… was my father’s get by his second wife, Mehleena, the fat, treacherous sow. Princess Deeahna was the youngest of that brood, too young to have absorbed very much of her mother’s madness, religious fanaticism and treason; Giliahna had promised the then prince, her stepson, a bride of her own blood, and when this Deeahna was old enough, she was sent to Kuhmbuhluhn.

 “The Princess and young Speeros Sanderz-Vawn were the only two of that pack who didn’t die in disgrace. As you know, Bili had Mehleena’s eldest, that buggering swine Myron, impaled right after that rebellion… after suitable public torture and maiming, of course. And although I was roundly criticized and castigated for the deed, I saw the young bitch who slew my sergeant so treacherously atop a stake, too. The eldest daughter, Dohlohrehz, married an Ahrmehnee who beat her to death when he caught her in bed with another man.”