Fools vampires with escapist tricks

Larten flushed angrily and squinted against the glare of the spotlights,
scanning the crowd to find the one who had insulted him. Anger quickly
gave way to delight when he spotted a grinning Gavner Purl sitting near the
back. Beside him sat an even more welcome and unexpected sight—Wester
Flack.

Larten was thrilled to see his old friends, regardless of the fact that
Gavner continued to heckle him, and he put on an extra-fine, precisely
timed show. Even Wester and Gavner had trouble keeping sight of him
when he darted out of the way of the falling stakes and a massive rolling
boulder. On a couple of occasions they thought, along with the rest of the
audience, that he had been squashed or speared. But the orange-haired
General always reappeared to take his deserved applause.

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The Saga of Larten Crepsley: Brothers to the Death, Chapter 18