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THE FLINT LORD
Richard Herley
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THE FLINT LORD
Copyright (c) Richard Herley 1981
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First published by Peter Davies/William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1981
Revised for electronic publication, 2008
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THE FLINT LORD
PART ONE
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Fodich felt his fingers move. He touched the hard spikes of gorse. He closed his hand and made it bleed.
He was alive.
He was cold.
Needles of rain hurt his back where the flesh was open, rain in the wind like the soldier spikes in his palm.
Fodich was hallucinating. They had nearly killed him, tied him to a ladder and rendered him useless, and thrown him away to die. Night had come, yet in his head it was still morning and he was at the ladder. That first moment had not ended. All day it had been with him, receding, coming back, filli