He needed fire! He turned and saw one carcass burning, on the far bank. They were still firing, and he was aware of voices shouting, and then he was finished, the fuse tight, and he backed away, pushing the white line up the bank, away from the water. A musket ball tore at his sleeve, burning the skin, but behind him the light was disappearing as his Riflemen kicked carcasses into the water. Then he thought of a stone and scrabbling with his hand, found one, and rammed it into the hole. He tried to pull one loose from another keg, but it had been hammered tight.
The bung had gone! He looked round, trying not to hurry.
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The fuse had fallen free and he pushed it into the bung hole, feeling the gritty resistance of the powder. He followed the white fuse, and the great, sloping earth dam was above him, holding the tons of water, and bullets flecked the slope as Sharpe threw himself at the base of the barrels. He heard Harper behind him, shouting the orders, and then the distinctive sound of Baker rifles. It was a difficult shot for the French, almost straight downwards, and they were hurrying too much. The ground was wet and slippery, dotted with smooth rocks, and once he skidded wildly, flailed his arms for balance, and sensed the musket balls banging down at him. The French saw him and he heard the shouted orders. He broke from the cover of the trees and ran upstream, into the light. Their statuaries were of men and women, not stylized versions of gods. If modern men and women looked to the heavens for their God, the Amenes had looked to the seas.
They gazed in fascination down a network of windowless corridors whose interior walls were beautifully painted with scenes of spectacular seascapes that began with calm waters and progressed to waves whipped by hurricane furies beating against rocky shorelines. His stomach lurched and he clutched frantically at F'lon, wondering what ailment had taken the dragon so suddenly.īut what were those chains? he asked, his voice tense and bitter as before,and why do I want to be her hateful prisoner? So that she can know my wrath every night as she keeps me close to her? Just then Simanith, who had surprised Robinton by walking to the edge of the High Reaches court, scared him half to death by falling off the edge into the long drop down to the valley floor.
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