The Kingbreaker, A Dance with Dragons, Ser Barristan fights Khrazz the pit fighter

Ser Barristan turned with him. “This coward is about to kill you, ser.”

Ser Barristan Selmy accuses king Hizdar Zo Loraq of attemptiong to assasinate queen Daenerys Targaryen via the poisoned locusts, he is about to arrest him, but finds the pit fighter Khrazz, personal guard to the king, on his way.

Reference excerpt from the book: The Kingbreaker; A Dance with Dragons

Selmy blocked the cuts at his head and let his armor stop the rest, whilst his own blade opened the pit fighter’s cheek from ear to mouth, then traced a raw red gash across his chest. Blood welled from Khrazz’s wounds.

That only seemed to make him wilder. He seized the brazier with his off hand and flipped it, scattering embers and hot coals at Selmy’s feet.

Ser Barristan leapt over them. Khrazz slashed at his arm and caught him, but the arakh could only chip the hard enamel before it met the steel below.

“In the pit that would have taken your arm off, old man.”

“We are not in the pit.”

“Take off that armor!”

“It is not too late to throw down your steel. Yield.”

“Die,” spat Khrazz … but as he lifted his arakh, its tip grazed one of the wall hangings and hung.

That was all the chance Ser Barristan required.

He slashed open the pit fighter’s belly, parried the arakh as it wrenched free, then finished Khrazz with a quick thrust to the heart as the pit fighter’s entrails came sliding out like a nest of greasy eels.

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