Armies of Nine, Book Three of The Adventures of Sarah Coppernick by SJB Gilmour

Author:SJB Gilmour
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Marzdane stumbled outside and onto the footpath on Punt Road in Melbourne. The typical Melbourne weather had decided to change again. When he had arrived, the day was clear and cool. Now the wind was blowing nastily and rain was pummelling down upon him. The mortals scurrying past him underneath their umbrellas ignored him as he healed his collarbone with a single muttered command. It may have been easy to do, but it still hurt quite badly. He gave a loud shout and swore most uncouthly. This time, a few startled mortals glanced at this strange, dishevelled and now quite wet man and hurried past. His bones were old now. Marzdane cursed his newfound frailty. No matter how much he had tried, he had been unable to reverse the spell young Hazelwood had cast.

This confused him mightily. She was just a child and the spell was advanced for a girl so young certainly, but even so, he should have been able to reverse it quite simply. He shook his matted grey hair a few times. At least that didn’t hurt now that his shoulder was better, but it still produced several cracks and creaks from his old bones. Marzdane ignored them and stood quite oddly, out in the rain for several minutes.

The rain didn’t matter. His shoulder didn’t matter. The spell that had caused him to age so much didn’t matter. He knew where Angelina was! He smiled to himself. That smile turned into a great big grin. He tilted his head back and stared up at the raindrops falling hard down upon him. They stung his eyes but he didn’t care. He thrust his arms out wide and shouted at the sky in pure joy. He’d found her!

Several more passers by dashed past him, leaving quite a wide distance between them. Mortals in Melbourne were quite used to seeing the occasional crazy person out in the street but that didn’t mean they trusted them or wanted to help.

‘What the hell are you looking at?’ Marzdane demanded suddenly of one poor woman who rushed past. She gave a startled shriek and hurried off, refusing to look at him.

Marzdane glared after the woman in disgust. Then he glanced down at his soaking, ruined suit. In an act of rebellion against The Guild that had deserted him so shamelessly, he drew in his power and glared up at the pouring rain.

‘Haltus!’ he bellowed. The rain stopped. So did the wind. He still needed sunshine. Yes, he was in such a good mood now that he definitely needed sunshine to shine down upon him. ‘Orbus!’ he commanded the sky. The huge grey clouds parted and the sunshine broke through. The air was still cool, certainly, but now at least he wasn’t getting any wetter. Satisfied that the elements were now behaving themselves, he turned his energy to his clothes.

‘Purgarito!’ he commanded his suit. His body shimmered and in a flash, his clothes were once again clean and pressed. His tie was repaired and his shirt had new buttons.

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