Despite thedays he had spent with a sword in his hand this was Hal's first killwith the cold steel, and he was unprepared for the sensation of hisblade running through human flesh. On the Gull's quarterdeck, under acanvas awning, a breakfast table was laid. There wassilence for a moment and then the clatter of something falling to thestone floor. erous discharge, Hal could hear the screams and moans of thewounded resounding in the reeking blue fog.
It was a small price to pay, Hal supposed, andyet, though he knew it to be weakness, he mourned Stan Sparrow. Then he hurled the keg out over the hillside. On the morrow we will move the culver ins to the entrance and set themup in stone emplacements to cover the channel, he told Hal. Before darkness fell Hal set them to building the stockade, and hechecked carefully to make certain that the gaps in the breastwork wereclosed with branches of sweet-thorn.
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