CHAPTER 33
Strike your enemy where he least expects it.
-FROM THE BOOK OF ST. ALBANS-
The city was wracked in the throes of battle and rebellion. In many parts of the city groups of Malawian’s who had wavered between supporting their old baron or in entering the camp of the Hartooth was decided with a sudden ferocity. The news of Juris Malawei’s death swept through the city like a summer’s grass fire in the endless steppes. Hundreds of Malaweians who wished to remain neutral in the conflict now took up arms and began fighting both the troops loyal to Eldeware of Malagna and any Hartooth warrior they could find. In the bitter cold night, the curved war horns of Dragon war bands lifted into the darkness soon blended with the clash of steel and the screams of Dragon war cries.
Through the
