Blood and Steel by Martin Parece

Author:Martin Parece
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781469901961
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2011-12-05T00:00:00+00:00

19.

Cor slept late into the morning, a habit that seemed to be forming in the last week or so. On the other hand, he was certain that he had not dealt with this much hardship ever in his life. He immediately fished Rena’s journal out of his tunic and laid the tunic out to dry in the sun. Between the cotton tunic and the leather scrolls he had wrapped around the journal, he was pleased to find that the tome seemed perfectly dry and undamaged. He breakfasted and flipped through the journal while waiting for the sun’s warmth to dry his tunic.

Rena had lived three hundred years and was Lord Dahken of Sanctum for nearly two hundred years. She died before The Cleansing. She apparently started keeping her journal during her teenaged years, at which point she came to Sanctum and went through a training and education regimen similar to Cor’s. Rena wrote her entries with almost obsessive detail, recording nearly every blow in combat and describing sunrises in poetic prose. As he scanned the pages, Cor found she even recorded her sexual encounters with exceptional detail, evoking feelings that Cor simply wasn’t sure how to handle.

It was just before Rena became Lord Dahken that she had found Soulmourn in a bizarre and ancient edifice. The building seemed to be made of steel with accents of precious metals; one side was wide open to the elements, ancient shattered glass littering the area. Though known, the building was avoided by the Westerners of the day and ignored by the Loszians. The sword called to her blood, just as it had called to his, and she found the strange building easily; Rena even had drawn a rough map showing its location. It was the map that bothered Cor significantly; based on other landmarks, he was certain the building he sought was in the southern portion of the World’s Spine.

Cor closed the volume; deciding it was time to get moving, he collected the stallion from where it grazed nearby. He gathered his belongings, slipping the journal into a heavy sack, which he hung from the saddle. His tunic was mostly dry, and he pulled it over his head, followed by the hooded cloak he had purchased. It was going to be a hot day, but Cor intended to go into the town of Hager a few miles to the north, and he did not want to announce who he was to every soul in the street.

Before Cor turned north, he walked the horse to Sanctum; yesterday, in his exhaustion he noted that something about it looked odd. Today, it was plainly obvious that the tower had come down from the fire. No doubt, it was supported largely by the wood spiral stairs that wound inside of it; the fire likely had spread into the tower, and there was little else to hold it up. When Cor reached the gate, the total devastation astounded him; he stood staring in disbelief. The tower had indeed

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