Black Moon by J. T. Williams

Author:J. T. Williams [Williams, J. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-30T23:00:00+00:00

Leaving Braei at the doorway, they ran down several stairwells that twisted into the inner bowels of the castle. It was dark and moist in the lower catacomb they found themselves in. Nekeli had set Selbi in a corner of the passage the stairwell opened to.

“Stay here. You are too weak, my love.” He kissed her on the forehead. “Keep your sword. I took down the one for you. Let me take the rest. You have been through enough.”

She returned the smile. “May Etha protect you.”

Evri and Kirla were already on the opposite side of the room. There was another doorway, but it was open.

“Come on, this way!”

Evri and Kirla led the way as the rest followed behind. They came to a large cavernous passage and could hear the sea.

It was a hidden harbor with two ships beneath the castle. A cloaked man stood atop one of the smaller vessels.

“No further!” he shouted.

Evri and Kirla sprinted forward, but the man summoned fire in his hands, throwing two fireballs. They dodged, but the blasts nearly struck Fadis and Valrin.

The ship was nearly ready to sail.

“Get aboard!” Evri shouted. “The king escapes!”

Evri ran to get closer to the Rusis, when a blast of ice threw him into the water. Kirla ran toward the edge of the ship as Fadis ran and slid nearly into the water, just grabbing on to a rock before he did. He grabbed Evri’s leg and pulled him ashore.

Nekeli had made it aboard and shifted along the deck, moving away from the Rusis and vanishing into the captain's quarters of the ship.

Kirla hid behind a rock nearly at range for a throwing knife, but she only had one more. She had gotten rid of some of the others when she was changing for the king again, and now she didn’t have what she wished she did.

Fadis slapped Evri, and he came to, sitting up just for another blast of ice to barely miss him. Kirla took that moment to close the distance with the Rusis, tossing her knife, but he deflected it, responding with a blast of electricity, which missed. She jumped to the ship and drew her sword at the Rusis.

“Metal cannot stop magic. It does not matter. You have failed.”

Nekeli emerged from the captain’s quarters. “The ship is empty. No one is here.”

Just past the ship, the other ship was already moving away. Nekeli went to jump to shift into leaves toward the other vessel, but the Rusis sent a blast of fire directly at him, which just missed him but was enough to knock him over the deck and into the water. Fadis made it onboard, as did Evri, with Valrin just behind him.

“Magic cannot be defeated with swords. Do you not know who I am? I am the greatest of the lost race of Rusis. I am—”

A sudden barrage of icy spikes struck him. He turned to see Braei and the entrance to the secret harbor. Kirla and Fadis lunged, both stabbing him in his upper chest.

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