Chapter eighteen
Queen Lush — heroineNot all the mercenaries hired by Vodun Alloran quietly accepted the needle and agreed to repatriation.
Leone Starhammer reined in and looked down on the village cupped in its little valley. It still burned. The black smoke hung greasily above collapsed roofs and fallen walls. Corpses lay about in grotesque contortions.
“The bastards have been through here, and recently,” said Leone. She turned to Queen Lushfymi who rode at her stirrup.
“Then they cannot be far off,” said the queen.
“May the Gross Armipand rot ’em.” Leone lifted her gloved hand. “I’ll get the girls moving. We’ll have these Pandrite-forsaken cramphs—”
“You will use the rest of the brigade, Leone?”
A regiment of zorcabows and a regiment of zorca lancers had been placed at Leone’s di
