Darkness Rises: Age Of Magic - A Kurtherian Gambit Series (The Rise of Magic Book 6) by CM Raymond & LE Barbant & Michael Anderle

Author:CM Raymond & LE Barbant & Michael Anderle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2017-09-21T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

No more than an hour into their journey Hannah grew tired of the silent march. She slowed her pace, allowing Mika and Olaf, with Karl close behind, to move ahead. Ezekiel caught up with her. His face was filled with life, eyes scanning the trees around him. They were becoming denser.

“Did you spend much time up here?” Hannah asked Ezekiel, wondering if the magician was in a talkative mood.

“Funny you should ask,” Ezekiel said, a smile spreading on his lips. “During the Madness, New Romanov wasn’t like it is now. The walls were intact, and they provided a very strong defense against the Mad roaming the countryside. The safest course would have been to stay near the town, but… My father didn’t always practice prudence.”

He pointed to a stand of trees. “One time my father took me out camping, to my mother’s dismay. We spent two nights right in there.”

“Seriously? During the Madness?”

Ezekiel nodded. “My father was a funny sort. He insisted on trying to weave some normalcy into our completely abnormal life. He said that camping was something he had learned from his father, who had learned it from his father and so on since the times of the old world. The first night went off without a hitch. We sat and ate and laughed. Had my first taste of beer that night in those trees.” His eyes lit with his reminiscence.

It made her happy to hear about her mentor’s peaceful days. They were so different from one another—their upbringings were night and day. But they were bound together by the same power. In some ways Ezekiel was more of a father to her than her own had ever been.

“And the second night?”

“A complete disaster. I remember it like it was yesterday. Dad was sitting there in all his glory, with a few beers already under his belt. He was telling me about how he’d met my mother, giving more details than a child wanted to know about the woman who’d raised him.” Ezekiel laughed to himself. “Before his details got too lurid, we heard sounds like groans or moans nearby in the woods.”

He fell into one of his usual silences and, as was common, Hannah grew impatient. “You were telling me a story, Zeke.”

“Of course,” he said, his eyes cutting back to the stand of trees. “We were on our feet and my father’s club was in his hand. The old man wasn’t much of a fighter, but he could hold his own against a Mad or two if necessary. Unfortunately, there were half a dozen of the damned things. More than my father could take on.”

“But you were with him. Surely they wouldn’t have been a problem for you?”

He smiled. “I wasn’t always the man you see before you. And I didn’t always know how to use the power inside me.”

“Holy shit,” Hannah said, realizing the dire situation they must have been in.

“I believe that was the exact phrase my father used. We stood shoulder to shoulder.

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