Arcane Dropout 4 by Edmund Hughes

Author:Edmund Hughes [Hughes, Edmund]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

Lee was tempted to fling another spell at Shannara and her bonded animals, but King Mora and his faction were already moving to combine their strength with the Melting Pack. He didn’t have any choice but to fall back.

Tess shouted something in his ear. Lee turned in time to see her pointing across the room, toward Harper and Zoe. They weren’t fighting each other, but they were as close to it as two people could get, judging from their body language. The ambient chaos drowned out the sound of their argument, but he didn’t need to hear what was being said.

Lee wasn’t sure if the latest explosion had been a grenade or a spell, but it had done serious damage to the castle’s roof. Chunks of stone fell through the air like gigantic hailstones, shattering against the floor as often as striking people’s heads. A piece of debris the size and shape of an ironing board missed him at a proximity that ruffled his shirt sleeve and let out a tremendous crack as it landed.

To get to Harper and Zoe meant getting past Jack and Gen, who were still engaged in their sword fight, oblivious to, or at least unconcerned by, the catastrophic circumstances surrounding them. Their movements were blurred beyond the speed Lee’s eyes could easily track, only slowing in the empty seconds between blade exchanges.

Jack’s black sweatshirt had several slashes across it, with red blood welling up in perfect lines underneath. Gen’s hair seemed markedly more ruffled than it had before and a thin layer of sweat clung to her face, but she seemed to be the one in control of the intense fight.

They flew toward each other again at a speed faster than his eye could follow, turning into a mass of blurred color and movement. Lee looked beyond them and saw Harper and Zoe falling into casting stances. He broke into a sprint, passing Jack and Gen and coughing as he inhaled a plume of fine dust.

Just as the two women were about to release the first spells of their own simmering conflict, a massive chunk of stone fell between them. Harper took an awkward step as she pulled out of the way of it, but the stone chunk was easily the size of a minivan, and half of it broke and jumped, coming at her again. Lee was there in time, but only just.

He grabbed Harper by the shoulders and yanked, probably harder than he needed to. She let out a gasp and spun, hands drawing up into the elemental casting stance Lee knew so well. She was about to throw a fireball in his face. He flashed a smile at her.

“Eldon…” Her voice shook as she said his name. It was the first time he’d ever seen her with an expression like that, eyes wide and blinking rapidly, mouth agape and trying to form additional words like a fish reacting to being wrenched into open air.

“It’s a long story,” he said. “No time right now.

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