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Fort Temperance, 3 March 1871
Chadwick turned away from the extra shadow that was the dead or badly injured man and turned his attention to the fort. Conscious of being outnumbered and outgunned, he skirted the walls and looked for a way that wouldn’t involve going over them. No luck—there was only one way in or out of Fort Temperance, and three guards stood in front of the heavy door reinforced with iron studs. He guessed that even if he could draw them away, getting through the door would be nigh impossible without explosives.
Up and over, then. The most promising side with regard to height was the one that had been damaged by La Reine, but he guessed it was most heavily guarded, and he didn’t want to send the grappling hook over just to have it pull a chunk of brick and mortar ato
