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Submitted to Contest #166
We could hear the sounds of battle from within our tent; the war cries and the crashing of swords and shields and axes. Battles have this pulsing quality to them like the ebb and flow of blood that can be felt through the veins; this pulsing thundered in my ears. The sounds flowed through me leaving a cold terror in their wake. I barely kept myself from shaking. Sitting opposite of me in our tent looking more bored than anything else was my charge, Harald. To my young eyes he was an old man and, since I was so young and inexperienced, I was ...
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