![]() ![]() I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. "What makes you better than the rest of us, and more fit to rule?" "What an enormous chutzpah you possess," I told him. But you must recall that I've defeated you twice, mercifully granting you your life on a Shadow world the last occasion." I don't know why we are driven to strive so for this ridiculous position. "It's true, that uneasy-lies-the-head bit. "I know a way," he said, and then he glared at Dik, who promptly departed and closed the door behind him. Then I lunged, was parried, was attacked, and parried again myself. The first time, as I remember, it was pretty much a draw." "You know where you left me, to die of the plague. He parried me and made me retreat before his own attacks. I tried three more elaborate attacks and was defeated on each occasion. I cursed this, but I couldn't get around it. ![]() He was a better man than I was, when it came to the blade. The Satanic Temple encourages benevolence and empathy, rejects tyrannical authority, advocates practical common sense, opposes injustice, and undertakes. I kept backing away, and the fear and the knowledge came upon me: I knew I still couldn't take him. Let's see what you learned on the Shadow Earth." And I'd like to quit your claim right now. Slay me, and the throne will probably be yours. ![]() If you wish to try me at arms, I find myself suitably attired. "Then it is between the two of us now, Corwin," he said. "More than one of us are assembled against you." "Oh, damnable brother" he said, retreating. Eric's retainers were coming, and if he didn't kill me before they arrived, then I was confident that they'd do the job - probably with a bolt from a crossbow. Then there were some alarms and excursions in the hall outside. ![]()
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