Dragon Kindred_And The Gyr Worshipers by Marshall Drews

Author:Marshall Drews [Drews, Marshall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-28T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter ten

“My gods!” Maven quavered lowly as his hand fell to his waist to rest upon the hilt of his blade. His breathing deepened as his blood raced throughout his body, leaving each hair to stand on end as he found it hard to get a grip of what he had witnessed. Standing behind Venneith and Joshein he pointed, quivering, questioning, “What in Lythre’s name is that!”

“Aye, I said Varrult spied an anomaly twenty-two miles up,” Trent explained as he too stood behind the knight, much more calm but finding it hard not to feel the crawlies creeping through his skin. He cringed at the feeling and added, “Ugh, I ain’t gettin’ closer than this, Venneith.”

Still fearful, Maven began crossing his chest as he chanted, “Ioxo help me, Vrueth look upon me not, Tuese see me not as a tenant just yet, and to all grant me strength; Jooude, Playrean, Polgratheaan, Keuth—”

“Maven, quiet yourself!” Joshein scolded as he wrapped his palm around Maven’s mouth, bringing his bickering down to a muffle. “You’re making me look bad! If you’re gonna call upon the gods, do it beneath your breath.” Maven’s breathing was still quite hoarse as he trembled in Joshein’s grip with eyes clenched shut, but he did as asked and muttered away prayers for forgiveness and mercy.

“Shall I let loose upon it now, my knight?” Amyth then questioned as he stood beside Venneith, bow drawn with an arrow ready to strike its target.

“And be shown up by a Narrovinian? I think not!” Joshein protested with a wave of his hand, drawing his sword to face the threat.

“Fine,” Amyth muttered before casting a challenging, almost affirming gaze to Joshein. “Have at it then, will you?”

Looking again, second thoughts began coming much faster than anticipated and like Maven, he too began to experience panic upon looking and sizing up the beast before him. Taking deep breaths to calm himself down, he stepped away behind Venneith once more but protested, “Don’t get so high-headed, foreigner.”

Amyth could only shake his head, repeating to himself the token phrase, ‘I am not a foreigner, I’m a Narrovinian like you.’ Already he was becoming annoyed with himself for just having to say it. “Do you even know what we’re looking at?” Amyth questioned them all.

“Calm yourself, calm yourself,” Joshein muttered in between deep breaths beside his peer. “It’s uh…some sort of giant spider,” he casually answered with an uncertain wave of his wrist. “Taffing hairy arthropod that is, with damn huge eyes. Lythre, you damn god!”

“It’s a Gypsy Seenth,” Trent was the first to answer.

“And how do you know that?” Joshein doubtfully questioned. “Aren’t you just some lil’ ol’ wood’s boy?”

“This handy little booklet here,” he said, holding up a rather healthily thick book for the infantry to see.

Squinting, he read, “The Arthropods Identification Index?” Stepping forward, he swiped it away, saying, “Let me see that,” before starting at page one. “Six-plus legs, two body segments, medium build…does it have more than eight eyes?”

“You want to take

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