Battle Mage: The Dark Mage (Tales of Alus) by Wigboldy Jr Donald

Author:Wigboldy Jr, Donald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-04-30T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The walls of Windmeer had been a welcome sight to Rilena after weeks of riding and camping in the snow. From the mixture of sighs and even cheers throughout the column at the sight, the falcon realized that she wasn’t alone, but a retreat from winter’s bite wasn’t the only relief that she hoped for when she saw the castle.

Every day of the week long ride seemed like Garosh would find a way to get into her sight or worse he would decide to talk to her. He was subtle enough in his approach that the woman could never come out and tell her superiors of his believed harassment. There had been that night at the campfire. Though she had been there, the giant hadn’t necessarily been there just to speak to her. He did try to apologize once she had been found however.

During each day’s ride, Garosh had found a way to ride into her vision, even as the woman tried to sink further into the column to avoid him. Her friends sometimes followed her, but only Elzen seemed to shadow the girl no matter where she went. His concern had been felt throughout the return trip and though she never commented on it, Rilena thought that he knew she appreciated all he did for her. While he could be comforting one moment, he was a jester or a tease the next. It made it a bit hard for the woman to always appreciate him when he managed to annoy her so often; but even then she thought he only did it to distract her from her pain.

Rilena’s brown eyes found Garosh intentionally, as they rode into the village, and from there through the walls surrounding Windmeer’s central keep. The city had survived one attack brought into the castle by someone serving the emperor and that was just a battle mage. Garosh was a monster so far beyond the betrayer’s power that she had to fear what kind of malice he could unleash on the city if he decided to do so. While she was certain that she wasn’t the only one thinking it, no one seemed outwardly worried by their prisoner’s willingness to surrender to an enemy he could have defeated to be brought to the heart of one of the guardian castles.

Losing sight of the giant after surrendering her horse to the stable boys, Rilena made the trek to a wing reserved for women battle mages. Elzen and his male comrades disappeared, but Zerra accompanied her new friend through the halls. Several other women carried their bags around them from the army that had journeyed to the mountain fortress, but Rilena knew almost none of them. Once again she wished that she could have returned with the army of Falcon’s Keep. The other city had been her home for more than a year and there were many falcons that she knew there. More importantly, Garosh wouldn’t have been there.

“I am heading to the bath house for

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