A
man didn't lie still to have his throat cut. But Captain
Lethid was dead, laid out neatly by the fort wall, and only the day before
he and Dogson had been fighting over a woman.
Major Verran had a problem. He didn't
think Dogson was a murderer, but who else had any motive? Truth to tell,
Verran had several problems. There were twenty-three men missing, including
the former commander; the leader of a fanatical religious sect claimed
a demon had invaded the fort; and too many officers favoured inviting
the priest in to perform a ritual of purification that Verran saw as not
only unnecessary, but abominable.
On top of that, half the battalion
never bathed. |
