“You don’t carry spears or bows?” “They’d just get in the way, sir. A sling doesn’t weigh hardly anything… — David Eddings
“You don’t carry spears or bows?”
“They’d just get in the way, sir. A sling doesn’t weigh hardly anything, and you can find good rocks anywhere.”
“I thought the sling was just a child’s toy.”
“Oh, no, Sergeant Khalor,” Althalus told him. “I carried a sling for years myself when I was younger. It kept me eating on a regular basis.”
“Could a man kill a horse with one?”
“Easily. The bone between a horse’s eyes isn’t very thick. I haven’t used a sling for a long time, but I’m fairly certain I could drop a horse in midstride from a hundred paces.”
“That’s a little hard to swallow, Althalus."
“I’ve taken rabbits at fifty paces — and a horse is quite a bit bigger than a rabbit.”
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“Sick, isn’t it?” Dhakan replied. “Our glorious, but slightly warped, leader hasn’t let him out of her sight since the day he was captured.”
“Surely you don’t agree with that apostate!”
“I was talking about his skill, not his message, Aleikon ... He’s good. There’s no question about that.”
“I’m pretty good at that. There were a lot of things I did when I was just a boy that I didn’t tell her about. I didn’t come right out and lie to her, of course. A boy should never lie to his mother, but now and then things sort of slipped my mind. You know how that can happen.”
“Oh, yes.” Althalus laughed. “Things have been slipping my mind for as long as I can remember.”
