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... e expendable, which was a different thing entirely, and the difference mattered.

A mercenary with a chipped longsword could hold his ground against a foot soldier of the Night Fall Order for maybe thirty seconds, sometimes less, sometimes more. But the average was about thirty seconds before something went wrong, a misstep, a miscalculated parry, or a moment of hesitation that got punished with steel through the ribs.

And yet they fought.

The ones who survived the first e ...

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