Arcadia's Ignoble Knight: The Sorceress of Ashtown Part I by Varnell Brandon
Author:Varnell, Brandon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Kitsune Incorporated
Published: 2017-05-25T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter 8
This was just not her day. Nothing seemed to be going right. All Erica wanted to accomplish on this trip was make her quarterly appearance before the Sorceress Council, give her report, and then return home as quickly as possible. Such a task should have been relatively simple, one would think, especially for a woman of her power.
Anybody who thought this way had obviously never been in her position before and deserved to be smacked. If there was one thing that she had learned in her almost six hundred years of life, it was that humans were a power-hungry group of individuals. Those who had power often flaunted it, and those who didn't have power became jealous of those who did. Jealousy soon became greed, one of the ugliest human emotions, and that greed would drive people to commit even the most heinous acts if it meant acquiring the power they so desired.
Erica could only assume that was the reason for her current predicament. Why else would a bunch of foolish people attack her like this?
Dealing with greedy fools normally wouldn't be a problem for someone of her power and abilities, but the people that she was battling against had clearly come prepared to fight a Sorceress. It didn't help that her Knight was bedridden, meaning she didn't have anyone who could protect her while she chanted an aria, which consequently meant the arias she could chant were limited to two, maybe three verses in length at most. Too weak to be useful.
You'd think that man would be more considerate of my needs.
Several nearby explosions forced Erica to focus on things other than her own lamentations. She moved backwards swiftly, avoiding the blasts of fire that rose from the ground like geysers. Giant pillars erupted, ascending into the sky in a fiery conflagration. All the while her mind cursed her situation.
Things had been going well at the start of this disaster, or as well as could be expected at any rate, especially since she knew next to nothing about her assailants. Of the sixteen people who had attacked the train she'd been on, only two had gone after her.
She assumed that the rest wanted to secure the passengers in order to use them as hostages or something. A foolish notion, to be sure. She was far more valuable than all the people on this train and then some, but at least it meant she only had to deal with a small group as opposed to a large squadron.
She'd dealt with the two easily enough, and then she had made her way outside to deal with the person who she believed was in charge of this operation.
She glared at the one who, even now, stood several meters away, their stance nonchalant, as if they weren't the least bit bothered by her presence, or the possibility that she might kill them. This person was the reason for the explosions. Behind her, the train remained still, bunched together and derailed, its cars held down by several dozen chains that appeared to have sprouted from the ground like weeds.
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