DRAGONSKULL: SWORD OF THE SQUIRE progress update & excerpt

Now on Chapter 6 of 20 of DRAGONSKULL: SWORD OF THE SQUIRE!

Let’s have another short excerpt.

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“Your own household?” said Gareth, and then he understood. “Lady Antenora put you up to this, didn’t she?”

“Yes, I’m afraid so,” said Lord Gavin, resigned. “She’s probably watching us from the window in the keep. No, don’t turn around and look. She think she’s being subtle.” He looked at Gareth. “After we visited Tarlion, Antenora decided she was going to talk to you about your mother. I convinced her to let me do it instead.”

“Oh,” said Gareth. “Thank you.” That would have been awkward. Lady Antenora was an attractive woman, but she also had a focus and intensity that was more than a little unnerving, especially when she was angry. Philip sometimes described how Antenora used to lecture him for hours when he had done something wrong, calmly citing both appropriate passages from the scriptures and various ancient Greek and Roman philosophers from Old Earth.

“I would stop misbehaving,” Philip had said, “just so I wouldn’t have to hear yet again what Aristotle and Marcus Aurelius had written on the formation of the human character.”

-JM