Awakening: (The Necromancer's Legacy Book 1) by Henry Andrews

Author:Henry Andrews [Andrews, Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

They began descending the beaten earth slope. The boots marks indicated their slow steps, breaks to inhale clean air and the size of each one's feet. Liu-Ken stopped and again pulled Bo up on his back. The boy's wet fingers were slipping down his clothes. The three men did not exchange a word with each other again. Aurora held a serene smile. She glanced at the rainbow. It calmed her to know that there was a world where karma would reward her for what she had suffered, a world where her father and adoptive parents would already have been reborn as happy humans or as a deva, a non-human, androgynous and immortal being with a physical presence in the earthly world. Yes, that was what they deserved after a senseless death, after sacrificing themselves so that she would have a shot at life.

At the end of the slope, a sort of cobblestone bridge led them to the city. There were no gates, except for two soldiers, one on each side, and a sign on the right indicating that they had reached the town of Shikosi.

They crossed it and, as soon as they set foot on the other side, the guards ordered them to stop. Their armors were made of wooden plates and painted red. There were still spaces unpainted and one or two cuts in each one. They had no mask or helmet. They were shallow soldiers, used as cannon fodder. They stretched their spears, the iron so rusty that it didn't even shine when the sun rays peeped through the greyish clouds.

"Who are you? What do you think you are doing?" one of them asked. His hands trembled and his spear did not hold still.

"We don't want any trouble," Liu-Ken began. "we just want to take this boy to the doctor. I hope you can arrest these three men, too. They almost killed the kid. I assume you have a guard who can handle them, right?"

The guards took two steps to the side, tilting their heads to better see the faces of the three men behind Liu. Their faces withered, their cheeks losing color, a steady exchange of glances between the two, as they thought about what to answer.

For a long minute, nobody spoke. The morning breeze caressed their faces, wiping the sweat from their faces and bodies, the clothes detaching from the fabrics. They were surrounded by dozens of adult peasants who were working in the wheat and potato fields. The wrinkled, dark faces and the dry blood scars of the lashes told a heavy story. Aurora had never seen anything like it.

In her village, they worked in the fields for their benefit, so that not only would they have something to eat, but also so that they could sell to nearby towns and buy instruments, spices, and a few other things. But not there, there they worked out of necessity, the sun-burned body, scarred at the hands of the foremen who forced them to work, shouting at them if they fell to the ground due to tiredness.

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