Prince of Fools. Mark Lawrence

will cure my poisoned hand?’ He held the offending article up for inspection, wincing as he did so.

      ‘Best place to get wounds seen to outside a battle-hospital! These people juggle axes and burning brands. They swing from trapezes and walk on ropes. There’s not a circus in the Broken Empire that doesn’t have half a dozen people who can stitch wounds and with luck a herbman for other ailments.’