Call to War by Adam Blade & Adam Blade

Author:Adam Blade & Adam Blade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2010-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

I fly into the low clouds with Gulkien. Nera runs below.

Now we charge straight into the mouth of a deep blackness. The hills grow rocky again. The grass thins, and stone ruins, thick with ivy and over-growth, litter the open valley below. This is an old country. There are many memories and ghosts here, but no one remembers their names.

As I soar across the valley, scattering a herd of deer and a flock of emperor geese, I think about Tanner. I should have known. I sensed the gift from that old woman contained something from the past — I should have warned him somehow. My scar, the old wound, was tied to that blood. Blood collected for Anoret and stolen by Derthsin. How did he get it? But what does it matter now? All I know is that my blood flows in Tanner’s veins.

Ahead, a narrow valley rises to a dark rock face, split with deep, leering holes, like honeycomb or empty skull sockets. The Southern Caves, where the piece of mask awaits. Atop the black rock is a ruined castle of turrets and crumbling walls. Moss and vines cling to it. We near the caves, and Tanner’s fingers tighten on my feathers. The castle wall once enclosed the entire mountain summit. Now, it is slowly fading back into the natural rock: The castle’s pale stone blocks, once straight and sharp, are rounded to stumps by wind, rain, and time.

The wind whips strongly, and I take a deep breath. I smell rank, wet fur: varkules. Many of them. Derthsin’s soldiers are close…. And there is something else, something I recognize, something ancient.

I land on an outcropping of the largest cave.

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