Dungeon Bringer 2 by Nick Harrow

Author:Nick Harrow [Harrow, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shadow Alley Press
Published: 2019-04-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11: Revelation

DELSINIA SPRANG TO her feet and lunged at me with her mouth opened so wide I could see her molars. She didn’t have fangs, but past experience told me her bite was a painful experience I did not wish to repeat.

I slid to the side and allowed her to charge past me. Before she could correct course and come back for another attempt to chew off my face, I took hold of her left arm and used it as a lever to hoist her into the air. Her feet left the floor, and I used my free hand to grab Delsinia’s thigh and lift her over my head.

She writhed and spat like a snake with a broken back, but for all her speed and cleverness, I was much stronger than her.

I swung her down to the floor hard enough to drive the air out of her lungs, but not hard enough to do any permanent damage. The shock of impact rolled her eyes back into her head, though, and the stunning attack was enough to drive the amber glow from her eyes and mouth.

Good. At least Kozerek the Bastard of Bottomless Bullshit was gone for the moment. I needed to get this situation straightened out before he showed up again and caused me even more trouble.

“Kill, kill, kill,” Delsinia gasped, her eyes wide as she jabbed her left index finger into her sternum. “He’ll be back.”

“She’s right,” Zillah said. “That monster’s got his hooks into her. If you don’t kill her, he’ll drive her around like a meat puppet. You might not get the drop on her next time.”

“Have a little confidence in your dungeon lord,” I said to Zillah with a grin. “You’re not wrong to worry about Kozerek, but we need Delsinia now more than ever.”

Kezakazek leaned against the bars that separated us.

“I’d have a lot more faith in this whole operation if you weren’t in there, and we weren’t out here,” the drow said. “Tell us why you need her?”

Nephket stood beside me, her hand on my shoulder just below the core. She gave me a squeeze and filled the other guardians in on what she’d figured out.

“Knowledge,” she said. “Delsinia knows far more about Kozerek and his pals than we do. Those drow we killed were never her guardians. They were here to keep her in line.”

“Oh, shit,” Zillah said with a breathy sigh. “But that means—”

“That the drow know how to put a leash on dungeon lords,” I finished. “And I’m next if we don’t figure out how to stop them.”

“Yes, yes, yes,” Delsinia said with a vigorous nod of her head to punctuate every word.

“Open that gate,” I said Delsinia. “I’m tired of sitting in a cage.”

The other dungeon lord stared up at me with doubt in her eyes and fear plain on her face.

“Take, take, take?” She pulled my hand against her chest again. She was tired of being a dungeon lord, and probably a lot more tired of whatever torture the drow had visited on her.

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