The Seventh Circumstance

<p>On the Island of Albion in the days before the Giants two unlikely lads are tempted away from their drudges' job in a village pub by the prospect of rescuing a maimed heiress the Rich Beleaguered Princess. Filling their purse with precious dragon scales and commending themselves to Miss Fortune they take a boat across The Sleeve in search of the flying pigs that can carry them to the Princess's tower. Aided or distracted by a succession of diverting characters - a drunken raconteur a sagacious seamstress the scale-shedding Ringbane a silent boatman a fake fairground time traveller and an itinerant warrior hunted by a very sinister villain - the two bickering heroes finally reach their destination. But all is not as they expected for they have neglected to inform themselves of some fundamental data ... (29000 words)</p>