A Girl From Nowhere by James Maxwell

Author:James Maxwell [Maxwell, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1542005299
Google: y4pVywEACAAJ
Amazon: B07ZJ2Y771
Publisher: 47North
Published: 2020-04-03T16:00:00+00:00

Galen gazed down as his wyvern shot over the city wall. Arrayed around him were dozens of his men, astride their own winged creatures. The wyverns formed the shape of an arrow. Soldiers’ heads turned as they searched the ground below.

Galen caught movement and his head jerked to the side. He saw a young woman with coal-black hair at the edge of one of the cactus groves. She was struggling in the grip of an ugly, wart-covered bax. The bax wrestled with her, trying to grab her neck, but she shoved her elbow into his face and knocked him back.

The young woman burst free and sprinted away until she was in the cleared space between the groves. She gazed up at the sky and waved her arms.

Galen felt a surge of admiration. Most of the women he knew from the city wouldn’t have the courage to fight back in the way she had. He had no doubt she was the mystic he was trying to rescue. He wondered how she had convinced the bax to travel so close to the city wall. She wasn’t just brave, she was also resourceful.

As soon as he saw her, Galen shouted at his men and pointed. Wyvern after wyvern swooped toward her. Galen’s men lifted their bows and fitted arrows to the strings as they began to circle. The black-haired woman glanced back at the area of the cactuses.

The stocky, wart-covered bax she had fought with stood at the edge of the grove. He had spread out his arms to hold his subordinates back. He glared at the woman and snarled, but as he looked up at the circling wyverns, he knew that if he tried to reach her, arrows would pepper his body. He shrank back into the tall green plants surrounding him. Clearly he was hoping that if he could hide from the threat in the sky, he still might get away alive.

The young woman had stopped waving her arms, but she still alternated her attention between the wyverns above her and the grove she had just come from. Galen focused on the bax. Their squat bodies were crouched lower under the cactuses and their mottled hides blended with the spikes and broad limbs. For the time being Galen ignored the mystic. He inspected the groves he was now traveling over. Some of the other wyverns circled even lower. Soon Galen was directly above the area where the bax were hiding.

As soon as it was clear that the city guard knew exactly where they were, the bax bolted. Loping along with their strange but swift gait, they kept to the groves and moved between the cactuses.

But all Galen and his men had to do was follow from overhead. When the first bax left the fields altogether, arrows rained down from the sky. A pair of sprinting bax died next. Another fell with three shafts in his back. Some of the group had second thoughts and tried to hide, but Galen’s men saw them and they fell like the rest.

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