Saving Hanna: M'Lady's Band, #1

By C. R. Coyne

Axes like everyone else in the band figured it was just another job.  Go save a village of peasant farmers from raiders.  Yawn.  But when the first attack comes that's when M'Lady's Band realizes this is no ordinary job. Just how do you stop something that's already dead anyway? 

 

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: C. R. Coyne
• Release date: Apr 29, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224128198

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Saving Hanna

M’Lady’s Band

C.R. Coyne

O k wiz make with the hocus-pocus, I see Deadeye wince at the command, he hates it when the Capt’n calls his magic hocus-pocus.  Next, the man turns right at me and I think, here it comes, Axes, get your people off their asses and up that left side of the mountain.  Watch your heads there’s a lot of activity up there.  Now move.  Told ya.

I nod and turn to my happy little band okay you heard the order get moving.  Sticks you and Haggerty start picking off the witch doctors.  Merrick see what you can do about their command, it’ll be just down from their fighting line.  Watch out for their guards.  The rest of you, skirmish line formation and melee weapons only.  Merrick’s beautiful eyes flash in eager anticipation and she gives me a single nod pulls out some kind of wicked nasty bladed weapon and disappears.  That woman gives me the creeps, even as I watch that incredible backside move off.  Merrick is gorgeous every man’s wet dream.  That is until you meet her.  She’s cold as a dead fish.  And she already has a lover, killing.

Sticks and his brother Haggerty start fitting arrows to bows and move into the woods above us.  I pull out my hatchet instead of the battle axe as there’s only limited room between trees.  A hatchet?  I hear you ask, how did you think I got my name?  If it’s axe like I use it.  Everyone in the Ragged Band has an assumed name.  You only end up in the band because you’re running from something. 

I start the long climb when I hear a rustling coming from my left and before I can turn around some big bruiser of a goblin jumps and lands right on me.  I roll downhill with the force of the blow.  I keep rolling as he has my arms pinned and I can’t grab anything to stop with.  His hot breath keeps blowing in my face enough to make me want to throw up.  I struggle to get free but this guy is twice my weight.  I look down and see just what I need to break his grip.  I stick my leg out and make us turn left right into an outcrop of rocks timing myself the