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For Honor
AN ADVENTURE OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
Book One of BY HONOR BOUND
by Kat Jaske
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Prologue
- 1636 A.D.
Chilling cold settled itself more fully upon the barren
landscape. A bone-chilling type of cold that seemed to fuse itself into
the marrow of one’s being with an almost human bitterness. Not even
the solace of falling snow pierced the stillness of the frigid panorama.
No, it was quite simply too cold to snow, if such a thing were possible.
Rather than descending as fluffy white flakes, snow lay packed and trampled
so heavily on the ground that it had been polished to a thick, rough slab
of ice. And all this in early November. 1636 was turning truly vicious.
Through this bleak and barren terrain, two figures trudged as fast as
their legs could carry them—fast enough so that the exertion might
bring some needed warmth to their numbed bodies. Perhaps it would bring
enough heat to withstand the biting cold—to ward against the icy
fingers of air seeping through their breeches and leggings and multiple
layers of clothes and deep into every muscle fiber and into their very
bones.
The smaller of the two figures reached up to steady the taller man—actually
the very tall man—as he stumbled over a stone frozen in the icy
snow.
“Papa.” The boy’s eyes searched his father’s face
as if seeking signs to assure himself that his father was all right, considering
their most recent travails in the duplicitous world of espionage. That
they had managed to escape the insidious designs of the powers that be—with
their lives and the documents—was nothing short of a marvel.
Especially after such stratagems as they’d been obliged to adopt
in their flight, he had no intention of letting his father freeze to death,
even if he had to rely on sheer stubborn willpower to ward off the chilling
hand of death. Christophe’s mouth drew into an even tighter line
as he addressed his father. Splotches of healthy tinted skin stood out
on the older man’s face—a hollow consolation that attested
to the life that still animated him.
The older man, with grey-streaked brown hair, stopped short every so often
and leaned with his hands on his knees as his son’s steadying hands
left him. “Christophe, you must go on without me. I slow us down
too much, and I will not be the cause of both our deaths.” He paused
as the frigid air stung his throat, and then his eyes shifted back to
the tall, proud boy with shoulder-length blond hair. “I thought
I told you to get going.”
Christophe d’Anlass rolled his blue eyes and opted to ignore his
father’s last few words. Instead, he urged his father to stand straight.
Reluctantly, through an immense effort of will that had often served him
in good stead, Thomas d’Anlass stood taller.
“Bon,” Christophe concluded with an expression of
determined satisfaction. “I don’t wish to and won’t
abandon what’s left of my family. Now come, we must hurry. There’s
no telling how close to us those Prussians have gotten, and I refuse to
be captured.”
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