Thread by @TheEdVerse

1)
“Someone’s coming, Lord,” Palonder murmurs.
“Then THIS way,” Wolf hisses, “and ABSOLUTE silence and stillness.” He leads them around a corner, and shoves his glowing hand under his clothing to quell its light.
#epicfantasy

2)
Two men trudge into view from the buttery, carrying a limp body between them. It’s a man whose throat has been slit wide—long enough ago that no blood remains to spray, drip, or ooze out—so his head lolls loosely.
#epicfantasy

3)
It bobs sickeningly at every step of his carriers, staring wide-eyed at nothing, as the two men carry him into the dark passage, around the corner almost to Wolf’s feet, and drop him.
“Here’s far enough,” one of them growls.
#epicfantasy

4)
“Far enough?”
“When he starts to smell, no one will notice. No one comes back here.”
Which is when the man straightens up and finds himself nose to nose with Wolf, in the gloom.
Wolf grins. As he slices open the man’s throat.
#epicfantasy

5)
His other hand clamps across the man’s mouth and twists his head sharply, to keep the spraying blood from drenching the top-ranked courtier of Neverune, so light floods the passage once more.
Enough for the other man to…
#epicfantasy

6)
…see what’s going on. His jaw drops in surprise.
And enough for Chant to throw one of her knives straight into that open mouth, making the man choke as he hops backwards, staggers, and then topples, clutching his throat.
#epicfantasy

7)
“Behold, Elvar,” Wolf announces, as he lowers his dying man to the ground, and watches the other kick weakly and expire. “Now you, too, can enjoy an invasion, and get in a little plundering. As ever, your courtiers provide.”
#epicfantasy