Rats in the City

Qaiqala; richest, largest and proudest of cities of the Swordlands. On certain nights of the year in parts of the city the citizens dare not venture out for fear of things that creep and set upon the unwary.

No one told Peregrine, Swordmaiden of the wild Aedring hill tribes, and Blade, one-time assassin and dabbler in the Mysteries, this, and so unaware they wander the streets…

Rats in the City is a 6900 word novelette, the forth in The Deeds of Peregrine and Blade sword and sorcery short fiction series