03 Warriors Of The Tempest by Nicholls Stan

Author:Nicholls, Stan [Stan, Nicholls,]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-04-10T21:23:28.129000+00:00

You could make it more familiar still if you were to come here and settle. If you were to come to me.' t should have been a moment of delight. Yet it was soured. For the first time in her company, he was roubled. Each element he had seen, could see now, tumbled through his mind. The ocean and peninsula. he valley with its hills. This pool. The steep bank yonder that should have been decorated with chalk Tfigures. Realisation hit him like a storm. >He leapt to his feet and cried,('I know this place!' @He sat upright, instantly awake. few seconds passed before he adjusted to his surroundings. Slowly it dawned that he was in a shack in Ruffetts View, alone, waiting for a besieging army's next assault. Half a dozen deep breaths were needed to shake off the dream and bring him back to reality. What he couldn't free himself of was knowing where he had just visited, if visited was the right word. It was here. RThe sun crept wearily above the horizon but there was no birdsong to greet it. Pale, chill light threw long shadows from the eastern hills but noth-ing could hide Hobrow's vast encampment. From tents and picketlines rose the murmur of purposeful activity. Surgeons were still labouring over yesterday's wounded but the Unis were readying themselves for another assault, spurred on by the black-garbed custodians. They were everywhere, urging riders and foot-soldiers into formation. Never mind that many bore blood-soaked bandages and half of them had found no chance to eat. Hobrow himself had no desire for food. He stood on a lightly wooded slope, well beyond bowshot of the heathens in Ruffetts. Though the breeze wafted delicious scents from the cookfires, the only hunger he had was for the Lord's work. Beside him, Mercy knelt, fervently whispering, 'Amen!' Hobrow reached the end of his prayer and laid one hand on her shoulder. 'You see, my dear? See how fragile their defences are? How thinly their defenders are stretched? Today the Lord will give them into our grasp and they shall fall before our blades like wheat before a scythe.' For a moment they stood side by side, ignoring the bustle of his thousands of soldiers. From here the Mani settlement seemed no more than a toy, the houses mere blocky shapes with threads of smoke from their chimneys drawing charcoal lines against the azure light of morn-ing. 'They must know they're doomed, Father,' Mercy said. 'How can they possibly hold out against us?' 'They are blinded by their wickedness. See how that cesspool of evil throws its hideous vapours into the air?' She could hardly avoid seeing. In the centre of the settlement the half-built dome of the temple glinted beneath its scaffolding, but shescarcely noticed the structure. Beside it, fountaining high above the little colony, the vent of earth power shimmered brightly with every colour Mercy could imagine. Greatly daring, she answered, 'How fair the face of evil seems. I could almost believe that such beauty can only come from the Lord.

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