15.Brother Gillam lowered his cowl. Underneath he had a mop of blond hair, a tonsured scalp, and a bloodstained bandage where he should have had an ear.
16.Victarion caught the lad about the throat with a bloody fist. " Go and get it, " he said, forcing him backwards over the side into the bloodstained waters.
18.The bloodstained messenger shook his head. " Our outriders had been vanishing. Marq Piper's work, we thought. The ones who did come back had seen nothing. "
19.He got painfully out on to the side of the track and limped to the petrol tank at the rear, pulling his bloodstained handkerchief out of his trouser pocket.
20.I allowed you to leave my presence, bloodstained, exhausted but exhilarated, and if I felt a twinge of unease that I ought, perhaps, to have told you then, it was swiftly silenced.