In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed. QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents. 5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull. 9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard. God-kings of War 10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord. QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king. 5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies. 9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry. the Unquiet Past 10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched. QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade. 5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds. 9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs. a Nest of Vipers 10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed. QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars. 5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed. 9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar. |