Chapter 24One Month Later
A series of hits to the gut had Elis crumpling in on himself. He only managed to stay on his feet by bracing against the wooden platform wall separating him and his opponent from the baying crowd. This wasn’t Webb’s, but it was no less glamourous, a ramshackle hovel on the east side of the Lower. The crowd was more blood thirsty. It was better pay but more perilous. The bloodier the fight the better. Death was a real possibility. But so was the threat of a Leuk raid. The bastards had been growing more persistent and prominent in the Lower of late and Elis could guess why with the reforms taking hold.
Elis sucked in a harsh shuddering breath only for pain to ripple through him, making him heave. The big barrel-chested thug, Elis’s opponent, was roaring at the cro
