(eng) M. R. Mathias - Vanx Malic 09 by The Tome of Arbor

Author:The Tome of Arbor [Arbor, The Tome of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty

Old Master Wiggins,

he loved the Spring Fair jig.

He twirled and spun so hard and fast,

he lost his silly wig.

– a Parydon street ditty

Vanx had to shake his head to clear the dizziness from it, but he already knew what the stuff sticking to his skin was. This knowledge was enough to have his heart pounding because there was nothing else like the feel of spider webs against you.

“Chelda,” he called in a semi-quiet hiss. “Chelda are you all right?”

“Yah,” she responded, sounding a little bewildered. “This stuff is— is—”

“Stay still! Stay still and close your eyes,” Vanx said. He waited a moment and made sure to recite the words to the Hoar Witch’s spell correctly. It was a spell from a section of her old book where she’d written down the ways she dealt with the monsters she created. This one was for Sissy and her webs. He didn’t open his eyes when the workings sent a quick powerful blast of flame out from his hand, but he wanted to.

He was falling then, and he heard Chelda thump into something just as the wind was knocked from his lungs. He passed out of consciousness but, before he did, he saw the dense spread of spider webs above them. Some of the dangling ends floated around crazily, the flames from his magic slowly consuming them in a sparkling blue flame. Some weren’t affected at all and, as the blackness swallowed him, he saw one of the red glowing spiders. This one was as big as the Ada Rosamond. It was covered in tiny little spiders, just like the one that almost killed Zeezle, only smaller.

It was having a little trouble negotiating the many webs made by the lesser arachnoids, but still Vanx’s heart was frozen with fear.

Vanx opened his eyes to a splash of cool water and Chelda’s concerned expression. He was disappointed to see that the spider he’d seen wasn’t a dream. It was still coming, and what he’d thought was its inability to get around the spinnings of lesser spiders, was just its motherly caution.

Chelda hadn’t noticed it yet, which was for the best. Vanx knew she was terrified of any sort of arachnoid. Vanx closed his eyes after smiling at her and did something he rarely did. He cast a spell intending to kill something. The fact that it had so many baby spiders attached to it weighed on his conscience, but the instinct to survive overrode his guilt.

His pupils must have focused for Chelda started to turn to see what was looming down at them. Vanx used his left hand to grab her hair and keep her from seeing. His right hand pointed up at the thing just as its needle sharp spinneret came out. A single drop of the terrible stuff in it dripped and landed on Chelda’s back. Vanx saw that it was a strand of web and that it was about to yank Chelda away from him.

Vanx blasted the spider into an up-spray of disintegrated mush with a kinetic pulse that cleared the webs for as far up as he could see.

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