Death at the Pass

Death at the Pass is a short story first included in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly in October 2011. It can also be found in the book A Collection of Obsessions: The Short Stories of Michael R. Fletcher.
== Synopsis ==
Khraen awakens to discover he's been dead thousands of years and is now enslaved by a powerful necromancer. But Khraen is no simple man.
Somewhere there was a Necromancer. Of that there could be no doubt.
Brushing a thousand years of dirt and rot from his robes, Khraen marvelled at how well preserved he was. Skin, sunken, cracked and grey, adhered to the bones of his long limbs. He’d never been muscular, but now he was downright skeletal. He chuckled at his little joke. A nearby dragon, still dragging its corpse from the earth and in a far more advanced state of decay, glanced towards him before shying from his gaze. Perhaps it recognised its ancient enemy. The creature was colossal — easily ten times the height of a man — but centuries of carrion insects had reduced it to a ragged and ratty skeleton. Its wings, once mighty and proud, hung like stained moth-eaten canvas.