"‘Rules of Enchantment’" Topic

"You'd think arrows are pretty silent compared to gunfire, but there's no mistaking that bristly whistle as it whips through the air just past your head before it thwacks into someone's Kevlar. Everyone eats dirt, and you're checking your ammo with your back against a tree trunk wondering how the wood elves flanked you when you realize how stupid a question that is: this is their territory.

You're new to the squad, so you're still nervous. Every crack in the brush and shaken leaf has you jumpy. We've all been teasing you. Rookie this and rookie that.

I'm about fifteen feet away. I can see that your face is pale and shaken, but you have your rifle cradled and ready, looking for orders. The rest of the squad is spread out. Diaz is pulling an arrow out from his body armor and looking a bit chagrined. Orley is slowly crawling through dirt; he's got a bead on the shooter. "Sergeant: got eyes on the woodie," he reports.

"Hold," I order.

This is the rendezvous point. But we're dressed in robes that make us look like peasant travelers. I can feel Orley objecting already to the suspicion in my head, but even though our minds are all linked up into one single group mind via the Spell of Tactician's Weave, only one of us is still in charge…"
Main page
link

Amicalement
Armand

Good story. The book has some other good tales too. Worth reading.

Thanks for your recomendation my friend.

Amicalement
Armand

The collection is pretty good so far! I don't like modern Baen very much, but there are some good names in this. Elizabeth Moon's story was good, Yoon Ha Lee's was excellent, and I'm looking forward to the rest.