Neal Stephenson Quote
Domingo regarded the man for a moment before answering. The Ordo Militum Vindicis Intactae do not hire themselves out as caravan guards, he said finally. There are several hundred men-at-arms in Barcelona who would satisfy your needs. I know none of them, Jacobi replied. Nor their reputations. Domingo made a noise in his chest and idly reached over to scratch the end of his shortened arm. Andreas had only been at the Shield-Brethren chapter house for a few months, but he had been there long enough to notice a connection between the quartermaster’s mood and the presence of a nagging itch in the scarred knob of Domingo’s arm. The trader’s comment was a bit clumsy in its inference, but not surprising. The Ordo Militum Vindicis Intactae—the Shield-Brethren, as they were more commonly known—were famed
Domingo regarded the man for a moment before answering. The Ordo Militum Vindicis Intactae do not hire themselves out as caravan guards, he said finally. There are several hundred men-at-arms in Barcelona who would satisfy your needs. I know none of them, Jacobi replied. Nor their reputations. Domingo made a noise in his chest and idly reached over to scratch the end of his shortened arm. Andreas had only been at the Shield-Brethren chapter house for a few months, but he had been there long enough to notice a connection between the quartermaster’s mood and the presence of a nagging itch in the scarred knob of Domingo’s arm. The trader’s comment was a bit clumsy in its inference, but not surprising. The Ordo Militum Vindicis Intactae—the Shield-Brethren, as they were more commonly known—were famed