Luck in the Shadows

Slow paced, dispassionate writing style, full of descriptions and info-dumps.

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SUMMARY

Alec is young naive boy who is being tortured in a prison. Seregil, a well lived gentlemen, is a spy that just let himself being arrested on account of a mission. When Seregil decides to escape, he feels sorry for the young Alec and decides to take him along with him.

On the way to some city, they talk to each other and Seregil can't help but see something he likes about Alec, enough to offer to take him as an apprentice. Alec is reticent at first, because he wants nothing but to live an honorable life, and a spy is nothing but a professional liar thief in his eyes.

When arriving at the city, Seregil assumes one of his many disguises, as a bard, a famous one at that. They lodge themselves in an inn and offer their singing and storytelling services as a part of payment for they stay. All the while Seregil is busy at work, trying to find out information about an upcoming war.

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