Warblade (Konrad, #3)

"Konrad!" hissed the skaven. "We've been waiting for you..."

Gaxar had adopted his human guise, and he stood in the cave into which the narrow tunnel opened. The cavern was illuminated by phosphorescence from the subterranean rocks, a ghostly light which cast no shadows.

Konrad and the Altdorf officer gazed at the terrible scene which confronted them.

Litzenreich and Ustnar were nailed by their hands and feet to the ground, their limbs outspread... They writhed in agony, but were unable to voice their pain because they had been gagged.

Human and dwarf lay eight feet apart. Between them was room for another cruxifixion, and four iron nails marked where the third victim's palms and ankles would be hammered to the rock - and Konrad was the intended sacrifice...