Mort - heart

“You couldn’t be sure it would work!”

Cutwell spread his hands in a conciliatory gesture.

“Well, no,” he conceded, “but I thought, what have I got to lose?” He backed away.

“What have you got to lose?” shouted Mort.

He stamped forward and tugged the bolt out of one of the posts in the princess’s bed.

“You’re not going to tell me this went through me?” he snapped.

“I was particularly watching it,” said Cutwell.

“I saw it too,” said Keli. “It was horrible. It came right out of where your heart is.”

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Mort p123-124