Eli: A Fantasy Epic Adventure (A Ranger's Tale: Part One Book 1) by Marc Alan Edelheit

Author:Marc Alan Edelheit [Edelheit, Marc Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

With Rivun following a few steps behind, Eli led the way back down the corridor to the guard room. He found Mae standing by the stairs, gazing upward. Her head cocked slightly to the side, as if she were listening for something. A ghost of a frown crossed her face.

The guard was sitting upon a stool, his hands bound behind him. He was staring at the ground and weeping softly, shoulders shaking. It was a pitiful sound. His head snapped up as they entered the room. Tears ran freely down his cheeks as he gazed upon Eli fearfully, then Rivun. He gave a shiver at the sight of the freed prisoner.

Eli glanced over at the man he had knocked into the wall to see if he had awoken. He had not stirred and was in the exact position Eli had left him.

“He’s dead,” Mae said simply, catching his look. Her gaze moved beyond him, to Rivun’Cur. Eli read not only fascination, but intense curiosity in her gaze. Mae’s face tightened and her lips drew into a line as realization of what had been done to him registered.

“Trust me,” Rivun said to her, “I feel much better than I look. You must be Mae’Cara. I knew your mother well, girl, and once considered her a close friend.”

“And you are Rivun’Cur, of the Anagradoom,” Mae said, “a living legend and willing outcast who follows the God of Shadows.”

“Guilty as charged,” Rivun said, “though I am not too certain about being a living legend and, now that I think on it, actually following that deity. Think of the arrangement more as a marriage of convenience, with both sides getting something that they desire, but not everything.”

Eli glanced over at Rivun, wondering what he meant by that. He decided the subject required more exploration, but at a later time. He turned his gaze back to the dead man.

“I killed him?” Eli asked as he gazed at the body. He had driven the man hard into the stone wall and he had not been wearing a helmet. “I thought I had just knocked him out.”

“I checked. You cracked his skull and—” She turned away to look back up the stairs.

“What’s wrong?” Eli asked.

“I thought I heard something above, a ringing of some sort, like a bell. It was faint but it is gone now.”

“Sounds get distorted down here.” Rivun gestured at the man Eli had killed. “I would not feel too sorry about him. He was a real bastard of a jailer. No kindness in that one. He enjoyed his work too much. When he wasn’t bothering with me, I heard him abusing and tormenting the slaves. If you had not killed him, I would have done it before long.” Rivun turned his gaze on the boy and let out a disgusted breath. “Though he did not lay a finger on me, he was not so friendly either.” Rivun glanced back down the corridor where he had been held. “I was becoming resolved to do things the hard way.

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