Spellsinger 03 – The Day of the Dissonance by Foster, Alan Dean

needlelike spears. It might even have worked except for

the one joker in the sloop’s deck. With his longbow,

Mudge gleefully picked off first the falcon and then wounded

one of the ravens.

This forced the attackers to close with their quarry, and

their agility couldn’t compensate for their relatively small

size. One of Roseroar’s spinning swords sliced the wounded

raven in half. Then another of Mudge’s arrows pierced the

hawk’s thin armor. When he saw that he couldn’t hope to

win either at long range or in close, Corroboc ordered a

retreat.

“Have a care for your gullets, scum!” the parrot shouted

at them as he danced angrily in the air just out of arrow

range. “I swear your fate be sealed! The oceans, nay, the

whole world be not big enough to hide you from me.

Wherever you run to old Corroboc will find you, and when

he do, you’ll wish you’d never been borned!”

“Blow it out your arse, mate!” Mudge followed this

with a long string of insulting comments on the captain’s

dubious ancestry. Roseroar listened with distaste.

“Such uncouthness! Ah do declah, it makes me queasy

all ovah. Ah do so long fo the refined conversation of

civilized company.”

The otter overheard and cast a dignified eye back at her.

“Cor! I’ll ‘ave you know, me elephantine kitten, that me

language is as fucking refined as anyone’s!”

“Yes,” she agreed sweetly. “Ah surely don’t know how

ah could have thought otherwise.”

Jon-Tom stepped between them. “What are you two

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arguing about this time? We won, and we’re safely on

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