Demontech: Onslaught by Sherman David

Author:Sherman, David [Sherman, David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2002-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

“Do we really have to wait for night before we can go in and kill those fiends?” Haft asked when Spinner finished.

Spinner slowly nodded. “Before we go in to kill those fiends and free the slaves, we have to have a plan. Do you have a plan?”

Haft shook his head.

“Neither do I. Let’s watch below and see what goes on. Then we can make a plan. What we observe today will help us make that plan. Also, we don’t go in until after the troll is put to sleep. And I’d like to know where the troll’s magician lives.”

“You keep mentioning the troll like you know something about it. Will you tell me about this troll?”

“See that hut?” Spinner pointed to a small stone outbuilding near a corner of the inn, where they couldn’t see it the previous day. “That’s probably the troll hut. I don’t know how it does it, but a troll under the proper care of a magician makes light.” He remembered how his and Haft’s clothes were clean and warm when they finished their baths the day before. “Sometimes the trolls even make heat. Darkness will favor us when we go in tonight, so we need to wait for the troll to go to sleep. There are other things a troll can do besides make light and heat—some of those things can be dangerous to the unwary. We don’t know what this troll can do other than make light and warm up clothes, so that’s one more reason for us to wait until it goes to sleep before we go back to the inn.”

“What if it wakes up while we’re there?”

“It won’t. I think. What I’ve heard is that when a troll is locked in a troll hut, it wakes and sleeps at the bidding of the magician who controls it. We don’t have to worry about it once it’s put to sleep for the night. Not unless we’re there long enough for the magician to come back and wake it again.”

“You think. I distinctly heard you say ‘I think.’ That means you don’t know.”

Spinner nodded. “I’ve never seen one. All I know is what I’ve heard.”

“And you don’t know for certain that what you’ve heard is right.”

Spinner shrugged.

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