Chapter 13, Father Cole:
Men piloted these black ships. The blood in their veins flowed red, and they died just as easily as the others the Brotherhood had faced over the centuries. Blond hair and red-faced, they were larger than most, their attacks were devastating if a fighter was caught unprepared, but their fighting style was slow and bulky compared to the monks of the order. They could be beaten.
The black ship in the harbor fell that very night. Most of the men were captured. There were no women among the crew.
Cole thought that extremely odd. He knew a female might not be as physically strong as a male warrior, but what they lacked in general strength, they more than made up for with flexibility and pure cunning when it came to hand-to-hand combat. In Cole’s experience, women had
