Ghost in the Throne (Ghost Exile #7)
“Kylon had trained under the finest stormdancers and swordsmen of New Kyre, and as he had approached manhood he had put that training to use, first aboard the ships of the Kyracian fleet, and then against the Empire in the war that Andromache and Rezir Shahan started. Then the Red Huntress murdered his wife, and Kylon had fought for coin the gladiatorial arenas of Anshan and Istarinmul. Now he found himself in a different kind of a war, a war of spies and shadows and spirits and sorcerers. But a... war was still a war, and he needed to keep his reflexes fresh. So he practiced with the valikon whenever the chance presented, but practicing by himself only did so much.Kylon needed someone against whom he could spar. Laertes would have done it, but the veteran centurion fought like a veteran centurion. He was formidable, but Kylon had killed men like him by the dozens during the war against the Empire. Morgant refused, which was just as well. Kylon wasn’t sure what the valikon would do against Morgant’s enspelled dagger, and both weapons were too valuable to risk in pointless experimentation. For that matter, Kylon could tell that both Laertes and Morgant regarded sword work as a tool, something to be used and maintained, rather than mastered for its own sake. Fortunately, Nasser had a love of swordplay for its own sake just as Kylon did, and he was one of the more formidable swordsmen that Kylon had seen.MoreLess
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