The way one fell

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  • Published 20150804
  • ISBN: 978-1-922182-90-6
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

Richard the Lionheart waits in a dungeon with his brothers for their father, Henry II, to come kill them.

RICHARD: He’s here. He’ll get no satisfaction out of me. He isn’t going to
see me beg.

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