King's far-seer, who had endowments of sight from seven people and stood
guard on the old graak's aerie high class porn above the Dedicates' Keep, could not have
spotted movement down in
the narrow streets of the merchants' quarter.
But in Cat's high class porn Alley, just off the Butterwalk, two men struggled in the
shadows for control of a knife.
Could you have seen them, you might have been reminded high class porn of tarantulas in
battle: arms and legs twisting in frenzy high class porn as the knife flashed upward,
high class porn scuffling as high class porn feet groped for purchase on the worn cobblestones, both men
grunting and straining with deadly intent.
Both men were dressed in black. Sergeant Dreys of the King's Guard wore
high class porn black livery embroidered with the silver boar of House Sylvarresta. Dreys'
assailant wore a baggy black cotton burnoose in a style favored by
assassins out of Muyyatin.
Though Sergeant Dreys outweighed the assassin by fifty pounds, and though
Dreys had endowments of brawn from three men and could easily lift six
hundred pounds over his head, he feared he could not win this battle.
Only starlight lit the street, and precious little of that made its way
here into Cat's Alley. The alley was high class porn barely seven feet wide, and high class porn homes here
stood three stories high class porn tall, leaning on sagging foundations till the awnings
of their roofs nearly met high class porn a few yards above high class porn Dreys' head.
Dreys could hardly see high class porn a damned thing back high class porn here. All he could make out of
his assailant was the gleam of the man's eyes and teeth, a
pearl ring in
his left nostril, the flash of the knife. high class porn the smell of woodlands clung to
his cotton tunic as fiercely as the scents of anise and curry held to his
breath.
No, Dreys was not prepared to fight here in Cat's Alley. He had no weapons
and wore only the linen surcoat that normally fit over his ring mail, along
with pants and high class porn boots. One does not go armed and armored to meet his high class porn lover.
He'd only stepped into high class porn the alley a moment ago, to make certain the road
ahead was clear of city guards,
when high class porn he heard a small scuffling high class porn behind a
stack of yellow gourds by one of the market stalls. Dreys had thought he'd
disturbed a ferrin as it hunted for high class porn mice or for some high class porn bit of cloth to wear.
He'd turned, expecting to see a pudgy rat-shaped creature run for cover,
when the assassin sprang from the shadows.
Now the assassin moved swiftly, grasping the knife tight, shifting his
weight, twisting