Ender of Worlds by Kit Hallows

Author:Kit Hallows [Hallows, Kit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-06T23:00:00+00:00

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I staggered past the bonfire, to the door of Talamos Gin’s house and thrust my hands against the thick planks. My fingers singed the wood as I soaked up the last dregs of his magic and I shuddered as the ominous power rushed into me. The depths of its malevolence was almost irrepressible. Images of Gin’s wicked deeds came with it. Stark horrible visions of cowering, bloody faces, many of them young, all of them screaming. I fell back and puked on the dusty ground.

The mhudambe were coming. I could hear them clattering down the stairs.

I leaped back toward the door, sealed it and reinforced the spell a second time. And as I staggered back toward the bonfire, I got an idea.

Summon your fire, I commanded my other.

I sensed his presence, sulking amid the torrents of my newly acquired power but he did not reply.

Summon your own. The voice wasn’t his; it was Talamos Gin, his essence infusing the magic I’d leeched from his dark dwelling. Do it. Burn it all.

An ironclad hatred engulfed my senses as I glanced back to the house. The door buckled in its frame and a mhudambe burst through a window and prepared to leap.

Cruel notions flooded through me along with a torrent of memories featuring Gin’s most prized assaults and retaliations. Bile scorched my throat and my stomach flipped as I clasped my hands together to consolidate the dark power within me. When I drew them apart, black flames danced in my palms. I rubbed them together, coaxing them to burn brighter.

“More!” I demanded. The swirling flames flickered, twisted and rose, forming orbs of black fire. I hurled one at the door as it flew open. It smashed into the emerging mhudambe, consuming the creature in an instant. It roared and its body turned to smoke. With a wave of my hand the door slammed shut and violent flames leaped across the oak trapping the creatures inside.

I conjured another burning black sphere and a savage thrill filled me as I cast it through the broken window. Within moments an inferno raged and the mhudambe screamed as it disintegrated

“You want more?” Another fireball leaped up from my palm and my ire shifted to the mhudambe’s young. A slow, cruel smile tugged my lips as I hurled the orb through their nursery window, and pictured their foul cocoons blazing.

I stood back and watched as the tower was engulfed by a raging black inferno.

Mhudambe leapt from windows, and I relished the crack of their limbs as they hit the ground and twitched in crumpled heaps. I strode toward them, my own pain vanquished by the dark magic, and grabbed one. It glanced up at me and its eyes narrowed in agony as I pried open its mandibles, stuffed black fire into its mouth and clamped its jaw shut.

The creature convulsed as it writhed in…

What the hell am I doing? It was the first true thought, of my own, that I’d had since Gin’s magic had tainted my mind.

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