Anguish Once Possessed by Christian Warren Freed

Author:Christian Warren Freed [Freed, Christian Warren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780578466842
Amazon: 0578466848
Barnesnoble: 0578466848
Publisher: Christian Warren Freed
Published: 2020-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

3213 A.G. (After Gods), Thoom, planet Kharsis.

Insects. More insects than any normal human being should ever be forced to endure in a score of lifetimes. Ursal Prowl had come, in a very short period of time, to loathe the sight and sound of so many bugs. Strange how one seldom noticed the miniscule things until confronted by them in great numbers.

They’d been on Kharsis for only a day, and he’d already seen beetles the size of small dogs and scraped dozens of leeches from his lower legs. One had even managed to get partially up his inner thigh before he realized it. The one takeaway Ursal had from the jungle planet was that there was no place to escape. Life here either consumed or became consumed. There was no sense of neutrality, at least none he discerned. The simple luxuries of Crimeat and his comparatively cushiony assignment to the lords of the Lethendweil were almost forgotten. It was enough to fill him with anger for being driven from Crimeat like a common criminal.

All of his quiet rage, all of the pent up aggression twisting his stomach, was directed at one man. Alain Nye had ever been a mentor and, to some extent, a friend. Ursal had grown under his tutelage from early adulthood, accepting everything Nye said as the truth. He never questioned, not even when Nye ascended to Inquisitor General and all but abandoned the boy who had grown to become, almost, a son.

Ursal had never questioned, not until Vicente Blackheart and his pirate crew captured and attempted to ransom him off. The cutthroat would have succeeded if not for the traitorous Therill breaking him out of the holding cell and leading him to an escape ship. Despite being relatively saved from a terrible fate, Ursal Prowl was now confronted by a pair of foul choices. He could either join with Therill and deliver retribution to those pirates remaining or continue in Nye’s service. Neither choice particularly appealed to him.

For the time being, Ursal decided to play it safe and remain in Nye’s good graces. There would come a time for reckoning when all prior sins would be atoned for. Alain Nye would pay for his actions following the Crimeat engagement—and he would pay dearly.

“This…is not a good place to be.”

Ursal glanced up at the massive frame of Geres Auk. Taller by almost a foot, Geres was about as close to one of the Three as a human could get. Heavy muscles lurked beneath loose-fitting clothing. Geres had a thick brow that gave him the impression of being dimwitted, though in truth he was anything but. Ursal knew him for what he was: a killer on a very short leash.

“We are no longer in Lethendweil, my friend,” Ursal reminded.

Geres snorted. His own experiences on Crimeat were much different from Ursal’s. He’d spent years in the service of the Scura family and was rewarded by being cast away right before it all fell apart. Unlike Ursal, who lived in the capital of Vaade, Geres Auk had languished under the dark granite oppression of the Plateau.

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