The Seventh Circumstance

[Adam Scribentis]

THE SEVENTH CIRCUMSTANCE by Adam Scribentis (2025)

On the Island of Albion, in the days before the Giants, two unlikely lads are tempted away from their drudges’ job in a village pub by the prospect of rescuing a maimed heiress, the Rich, Beleaguered Princess. Filling their purse with precious dragon scales, and commending themselves to Miss Fortune, they take a boat across The Sleeve in search of the flying pigs that can carry them to the Princess’s tower. Aided or distracted by a succession of diverting characters – a drunken raconteur, a sagacious seamstress, the scale-shedding Ringbane, a silent boatman, a fake fairground time traveller and an itinerant warrior hunted by a very sinister villain – the two bickering heroes finally reach their destination. But all is not as they expected, for they have neglected to inform themselves of some fundamental data … (29,000 words)

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“Who might attack us?” Nome found himself brave enough to ask.
“Assassins,” said Thrasos. “In the pay of my enemy, the Knight with the Long Knives. He has hunted me all my adult life, and will go on hunting me until one of us is in Hades.”
Shorty and Nome exchanged a pale, silent glance.
“And since you wish to know why,” Thrasos went on, “I will tell you ... " (from Ch. VI)