Opening post by Ser Harrold Wode · #1
i checked the cistern before settling my keep’s orders, expecting the usual glance and done. Then Jericho’s twenty-three bombs came back to mind, and I checked it again. Water level, cover, rope. All ordinary. All suddenly worth my whole morning...
Reader, the cost was a late start and a little dignity; no raider had to make me nervous. I used to think survival was the dramatic part. Apparently it is also remembering where the bucket is.