"The Thin Line," Part FF
\*\*\*\*\* There was at least one more element in the neighbourhood that I wanted to tie down before going over the border, and that was the Silverbrush property that was between the monastery and the boundary-river. Judging from what I saw on...
"The Thin Line," Part D
\*\*\*\*\* I heard the bells tolling from one of the nearby monasteries throughout the night, so it was with plenty of time that I was up and about and out of the billet by the time the sun rose. It looked to be a rather sunny and cloudless...
"The Thin Line," Part N
\*\*\*\*\* As it turned out, it did not make any difference. The Lieutenant had, evidently, already gone to bed, making it a very early night. On the table in the kitchen, propped up against the shove-copper board, was a simple note. "Private...
"The Thin Line," Part U
\*\*\*\*\* The last month of summer would be very busy in Albric Tor. The local farmers were starting to bring in their harvests of fruits and grains, and there were symbolic tithes to the Royal Family, something that I'm told has been a...
"The Thin Line," Part K
\*\*\*\*\* It was a long night, and an early morning, but I did get the bungalow looking like it would pass even the most exacting inspection. I didn't take offence when Chitterleigh took out a white cloth and began checking surfaces, even...
"The Thin Line," Part W
\*\*\*\*\* It is true, what they say: you never remember the details of your dreams when you waken. You do remember, though, sensations. The overwhelming sensation that I had was that I was drowning, and couldn't breathe. I would be bobbing...
"The Thin Line," Part F
\*\*\*\*\* My initial thought had been that, clinking and pouring notwithstanding, I was about to deal with some feral furs. I was not that far wrong; it was Schweink and Bagoum, who by either some unerring instinct, or by the means of observing...
"The Thin Line," Part G
\*\*\*\*\* The next pawful of days passed uneventfully, unless you count Bagoum dropping twelve straight shove-copper matches to me. The stakes were comparatively low: the ram had to mow both the front and the back yard of the bungalow, a task...
"The Thin Line," Part Q
\*\*\*\*\* Two weeks later, Elvish poetry would have seemed a completely different world from that which I inhabited. My world consisted of, in no particular order, having to call out the Fundamentals of Gramerye while doing pushups (in a muddy...
"The Thin Line," Part RR
\*\*\*\*\* In the dawn mists, the ant-borne host moved across the ice, to the strain of the occasional oliphant, but other than that, in unnerving silence. As they got closer, I began to make out the emblems that they were wearing on their great...
"The Thin Line," Part UU
\*\*\*\*\* The next sensation I had was being poked gently in my shoulder. I awoke to find the sled-driver using the butt of his riding crop on me. "Sorry t'wake yer, mate, but yer only a 'ero once, right?" He gestured in front of him. "No...
"The Thin Line," Part P
\*\*\*\*\* More's the pity, there was no particular way I could skive and get on sick call for the few days following, without getting caught. I suspected this, and it was confirmed by Schweink. "We had a fellow back in the old Thirty Ninth...