The Reluctant Swordsman
PAWN OF THE GODDESS
The last thing Wallie Smith remembered was a fog of hospitals,
grim-faced doctors, and pain. So when he woke in the body of a
barbarian swordsman, attended by a beautiful slave girl and a wizened
old priest nattering about the Goddess, he assumed it was a fever-dream.
But the World could not be dismissed so lightly. A naked little demigod
called Shorty explained that the Goddess needed a swordsman. If Wallie
undertook the job and succeeded, all that the World had to offer would
be his. If he refused, the results would be... unpleasant.
Wallie was not convinced, but Shorty was exquisitely persuasive. Soon
Wallie found himself bearing a magnificent sword, with no idea how to
use it – and the servants of the Goddess were out to stop him.
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