Chapter 13
The Road to Chinsey
The Gramarye Region
Grand Quillia
June 1856
Kendrick had lost sight of Mandell for some five minutes or so, and he was working up the nerve to make a break for it, turn off the road and escape, when he rounded a blind bend and found the former knight on his feet surrounded by corpses, one of which was Sir Evan’s pony.
“Ambush,” said Mandell, as he fired one shot after another into the bodies’ skulls.
“You or them?” Kendrick asked.
“Bandits,” Mandell said as he holstered his gun.
The former knight looked worse than ever. Some of the Hump bodies Axelrod had used to stitch up Mandell had not been fresh, and so his skin was brown and green in places, sagging away from the rest of his body. Kendrick noticed one of his partner’s eyes was falling back into
