title: Out of Time and Other Very Short Stories
author:  Andi Winter 
description: Andi Winter writes stories where reality bends just a bit, whether with ninjas, rockets, or wizards. An avid baker and competitive chrononaut, she can often be found dusted in flour or recovering from time lag. More often, both. She lives with her family in Oregon.
zlib_text: **AZINCOURT**
  
   _ **(AKA Agincourt)**_
  
    
    
    
  
  **By Bernard Cornwell**  
  
    
  
   **PROLOGUE**  
  
    
  
  On a winter's day in 1413, just before Christmas, Nicholas Hook decided to
  commit murder.
  
  It was a cold day. There had been a hard frost overnight and the midday sun
  had failed to melt the white from the grass. There was no wind so the whole
  world was pale, frozen and still when Hook saw Tom Perrill in the sunken lane
  that led from the high woods to the mill pastures.
  
  Nick Hook, nineteen years old, moved like a ghost. He was a forester and even
  on a day when the slightest footfall could sound like cracking ice he moved
  silently. Now he went upwind of the sunken lane where Perrill had one of Lord
  Slayton's draught horses harnessed to the felled trunk of an elm. Perrill was
  dragging the tree to the mill so he could make new blades for the water wheel.
  He was alone and that was unusual because Tom Perrill rarely went far from
  home without his brother or some other companion, and Hook ha