I was going to leave the next story till tomorrow, but it is so short I decided to go ahead and add it to today's reviews of Bohun - The Complete Savage Adventures by Steve Dilks:
Intrigue in Aviene previously appeared in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly no 48 in 2022, and is really just a short episode in Bohun’s progress through the so-called civilised cities. Still a hired soldier, he is suffering now from having spent too much time in battle. “His nights were filled only with dreams of death and blood. He knew nothing now but the madness of battle. The life he once knew, the dreams he once had were but ashes in his memory.”
Thus it is that he sets out to an inn to meet a young revolutionary who wishes to bribe him to assassinate Acilius, a local magistrate. “‘In the name of the people and in the cause of revolution – he must die!’” the young man insists. But before they part they are interrupted by three ruffians who deliberately pick a fight with Bohun, which results in him being arrested and taken to be sold as a slave. Despite the dire circumstances into which he has sunk Bohun is not so easily subdued – nor for long.
Though short, this story has some neat twists, helped along by Bohun’s innate ability to see past any lies he is told.
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