Voyage of the Dawn Breaker
Chapter One - Part One --- Battle at Trì Aibhnichean
Allanagh looked beyond the tall wooden palisade, protecting the small fort and overlooking the ford where the three rivers crossed. She swept a strand of silver hair behind her delicately pointed ear as she watched the black-clad mercenaries pick over the battlefield, looting the dead.
Her annual visit to the Ciad-Ghin border village had been disturbed when, two days earlier, a magnificent flying galleon had descended from the sky just long enough to disembark two hundred soldiers, who had immediately started digging out scores of huge holes in the frozen ground, which they had covered with snow covered tarps. After the galleon had lifted back into the clouds, the soldiers had waited for two days, eating cold rations, until the Orcan war band had come out of the dense forest.
They had patiently waited until the whole war band had left the woods and come into the center of the ford before quietly appearing out of thin air and springing the well-planned ambush. The Ciad-Ghin soldiers ha…
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