The Bone Merchants (short story)

 was the second short story in the Lethbridge-Stewart series anthology Lineage.

Plot
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Characters

 * Major General Fergus Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Colonel Conall MacDonell
 * Captain Fines

Worldbuilding

 * Napoleon fled the battle six hours ago.
 * The Duke of Wellington is Fergus' commanding officer.
 * Fergus has a wife back home, but not yet any children.

Continuity

 * Fergus recalls that the Lethbridge and Stewart families were joined two hundred years earlier. (PROSE: The Soothsayer)
 * After Colonel MacDonell's death, Fergus promises to pass the name "Conall" onto his family. (PROSE: The Forgotten Son, Lucy Wilson, Acceptance, and then Understanding)
 * There is a historian's note at the end of the story mentioning that Fergus Lethbridge-Stewart was first mentioned in PROSE: The Scales of Injustice.