Setting a course for the Bosporus Strait at the western end of the Black Sea, the ship skirted the coast of Crimea until the besieged city of Caffa came in view. Immediately, the crew and passengers rushed to the starboard rail to witness the unfolding horror.
“My God,” Aelfred moaned, “what are they doing?”
Wulfgar rested a hand on his son’s shoulder, “They are burying the living beneath the dead.”
Alarmed by the women’s cries, the men watched as huge stacks of plague corpses catapulted over the city walls, one dead body after another. Arching through the air, the cadavers’ arms and legs flailed lifelessly in flight until they splattered against houses and churches or spilled their putrid contents on the frantic streets.
Even from a distance, the seafarers heard the monotonous thud… thud… thud… of war machines relentlessly working to spread the noxious agent of death. The ghastly odor of the decimated Mongol army wafted across the water, filling the noses of passengers and crew with the sick, rancid taint of decay.
Edwin Woolsey has authored a total of ten books, starting with the trilogy - And There Were Giants. His other works include: If My People, The Voice of Seven Thunders, and The Revealing. The author’s current project is an unfinished six-book series - The Chronicler.
Edwin Woolsey has three children, ages 33, 30, and 27. Retired, Edwin taught in the Missouri Public School System for a total of 31 years. Mr. Woolsey has also served as a teacher, pastor, and newspaper contributor. He loves gardening, fishing, hunting, nature activities, history/archaeology and science fiction.
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