The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda’s Voice. Join us every Friday and share an excerpt from a book you’ve been reading.

Rules:

• *Grab a book, any book.
• *Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.
• *Find any sentence (or a few, just don’t spoil it) that grab you.
• *Post it.
• *Add your (url) post here in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url. It’s that simple.

I was neither merciful nor kind.

I was justice and my blade was cold and swift.