Chapter 9: Beginnings
As Cadoc accepts the mantel of Lord of Skeinhold, fate intervenes once again.
As Cadoc accepts the mantel of Lord of Skeinhold, fate intervenes once again.
A funeral, and another bargain.
Home in Skeinhold at last, Cadoc faces the ultimate reckoning for a bargain paid in the blood of the fallen.
Cadoc and his men find a moment's respite in the keep of Kas Mendoc.
While meandering along the Prince's Highway, Cadoc comes to the aid of a high-born Venyk woman bound for Kas Mendoc.
With their journey almost at an end, Cadoc hire out as caravan guards with the help of a mysterious Venyk priest.
Cadoc buries the dead, and remembers those he killed.
Cadoc's remembers his ill-fated bargain with the bwgal.
Cadoc and his men make the perilous crossing home after a year of fighting in a brutal crusade.