Original Writing by Robert Leigh Angus

  SWORN-DOG-ON-A-THRONE  A Dull Knife Story His eyes were the strongest of his fellows, and he was once fast on foot, quiet when he needed to be, and did not hesitate to draw a knife and put it into another man’s back if the opportunity required it. Sworn Dog was once a passionate fighter, but to live another day, he would not hesitate to blind an opponent with a fist full of sand and cut at his wrists and ankles. Some would say that it was not fair, but he was not in this to look like a dancer at a festival, he was in this to survive and thrive. That is how be became the Sworn-Dog-On-A-Throne. None had defeated him since he climbed the high seat at council, and none dared try in over ten long years. He had no honour, and he had no mercy. But he held a throne, and that is all that mattered.     Sworn Dog was once given a wise man’s secret in trade for a favoured rifle when he was a young man. That secret stayed with him for these many decades, and it had neve...