Chapter 13: The Fool

Chapter 13: Chapter 13: The Fool

James materialised in the grey void and counted them before the light finished fading.

Four strangers appeared around him in white flashes. He had their loadouts read before any of them opened their mouths. A long sword with a guild crest stamped into the scabbard guard. A short sword sitting too far forward on its owner’s hip. A wooden staff held in both hands, white-knuckled. A bow already half-raised, pointing at nothing, the instinct to aim at a threat that wasn’t there yet.

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