Agnes Day by Lionel Fenn

Author:Lionel Fenn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780812537895
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 1987-08-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

"East," Gideon declared without much thought. That was the direction the flying creatures had taken Ivy, and that was the direction from which the nightly visitations of the slanted red eyes had come. It would be rather like Daniel and the lions' den, he supposed, but it was either go east, or take the risk of following the army, which might have gone in another direction.

He frowned.

Somewhere there was a flaw, perhaps a serious one, but the day was already nearly half done, and he didn't have the time to figure it out in such a way that he might eventually change his mind and confuse himself to distraction. So, with a nod to Whale and a check to be sure his bat was still in its holster, he moved to the road, trying not to look at the encampment's utter and unpleasant destruction, and started off.

Confidently, with a spring in his step, and a reaffirmation of his commitment to the struggle he was facing.

It was, in fact, a surprise.

The devastation he had suffered upon discovering what had happened to his home in his absence was not, in retrospect, as traumatic as he'd initially believed. Rather, it was a shucking off of moldy husks, a fantastical rite of passage that had ended in a harbor where he could lower his anchor of stability and ride out the storms of Fate's hither and yon, secure in the knowledge that he was stuck, there was nothing he could do about it, so he might as well make the best of it and pray for a miracle that would deliver him from his enemies, if not alive, then at least in one piece; though, he thought on further consideration, alive would be preferable to the alternative.

"Are you finished?" Whale asked a little more than an hour later.

"Finished with what?" he said, smiling.

"Your ruminations."

He thought for a moment. "Yes," he said. "Yes, I'm done."

Whale nodded, his wattles nodding with him, and suggested they follow the road to the Fromdil Forest, which lay just before them. The Scarred Mountains, to the north, would do them no good since there had been no reports of enemy activity within their massive bowl of land. The Forest, on the other hand, was fraught with sightings of strange creatures, strange noises, and even stranger occasions of both.

"You think that's where they took Ivy?"

"I think that's as good a place as any to begin our search," the armorer said. "It's also where Agnes is."

Gideon stumbled, but did not stop, and stared at Whale. "Agnes," he said flatly. "I had almost forgotten about her." He stumbled again, looked down, and saw that the road had lost its smooth surface to a number of cobblestones that had not been set properly. "I understand she's broken with the Wamchu."

Whale shuddered. "Indeed and oh my, she has. It is best, I believe, for you that we confront her first, before we take on the larger task of the Wamchu."

"Do we have to?"

"No, not really.

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