A Lich's Love (Death Knight Series Book 5) by Michael Chatfield

Author:Michael Chatfield [Chatfield, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Michael Chatfield
Published: 2020-01-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter: A Lich’s Duty

Claire did her best to keep Anthony at arm’s length. Being around him made it hard for her to keep her emotions in check.

She wanted to reach out, hold him and hug him, tell him what her plan was, tell him that it was what she needed to do.

She sprinkled sand on the letter she had written. It adhered to the ink, speeding up the drying process.

With a flick of her hand, she removed the sand and the letter rested on the table. She looked at it. The cold words couldn’t express all that she felt.

“It will have to do.” Claire looked at the dagger that was to her side. Runes had been carved into the metal to create a powerful enchantment.

With a sigh, she stood, grabbing the knife and tucking it up into her sleeve. “Okay.” She shook herself and then headed out of the room.

She went through the halls. Anthony was outside of Shivernsin. The soldiers had been put to work, carving out small trenches in the ground to slow the Drafeng.

He seemed to sense her and looked up from his work, waving to her.

“Are you okay?” Anthony looked at her with worried eyes as he wrapped his hands around hers.

She let go of her nervousness and hugged him, resting her face against his cold breastplate. “I will be. Come, I need to show you something.”

“Okay,” Anthony said.

She felt a pang of guilt and sweetness at how he trusted her completely. She led him into Shivernsin, down to the lower floors to a supply warehouse filled with food and other goods.

“What is it?” Anthony said.

“We need to wake up the Guardians,” Claire said.

“That would be nice. Though, when I went there, I didn’t sense any fluctuations of mana. It’s as you said—it looks like they can’t be woken up,” Anthony said.

“I think that I might be part of the problem,” Claire said.

Anthony cocked his head to the side.

“You see, I raised everyone from the dead. I bound their souls to their bodies. I am their necromancer. They obey my commands. I created an enchantment over the area that would take my mana and wake the others, working around the sentence that I was given. The problem is that I am still controlling them. I can’t release them.” Claire’s head dropped.

“If we can’t wake them, we’ll find a way.” Anthony’s armored hand pushed her hood back and then tucked her hair behind her ear.

Claire would have been crying if not for her lich form. “I found a way,” she said in a low voice.

“What was that?”

She activated the formation that she had hidden in the warehouse.

Chains grew out of the ground and wrapped around Anthony. He was stunned for a second and looked at Claire, not fighting back out of trust of her.

“Claire?”

“There is a way to wake them up. If they don’t have a necromancer controlling them, if they are directly injected with mana to power their bodies, then they should wake up.”

The chains wrapped around Anthony’s limbs, holding him in place.

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