Fate’s Peak by Scott Volentine

Author:Scott Volentine [Volentine, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781546273301
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2019-01-03T04:30:00+00:00

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William poured some water down his leg to wash the blood away, and it all pooled in his boot, which he wrenched off his foot and dumped into the dirt. When he crammed his foot back into it he felt a blister on his heel pop. The scrape below his kneecap had started clotting, but the bruise throbbed under his touch. He took a few practice steps, submerging this new pain beneath the generalized ache. He gathered his belongings and stepped past the boulder to survey the new terrain ahead: boulders strewn about in a weirdly organized pattern, a generalized rustiness that drifted in the breeze like dust, stretching kilometers up into the foothills of the mountain

I could be up there tonight… if I can get through all of that. William sighed and gathered his belongings, then started picking his way forward through the field of debris, skirting past the next few boulders. The wolf put its snout to the ground as it followed him, marking the third boulder they passed. Its nose led it to mark several more boulders as they zig-zagged between them, like a rock garden which had been designed by entropy. The further they progressed into the rock garden, William felt the ground rise up under his feet and found the boulders seemed to be gaining mass and coming closer together the further they penetrated the new terrain.

A wall of squarish boulders took shape ahead of them, all of them towering over William as they stretched away from him. Is this some ruin? What civilization lived here? The wolf grew more tense, falling behind as it sniffed the ground, but as William walked beside the wall, he soon came upon a narrow passage between two of the stone blocks.

When William emerged on the other side of the wall, he came upon a an even larger boulder, four meters high and two ahead of him. Lower, more weathered walls arced away from him in both directions, with blocks that grew wider and shorter, down to the height of his waist. Chunks of rubble were piled in spills from the wall behind him that stretched into the widening lanes, bits in the rubble that sparkled in the sunlight.

The wolf stepped beside William and followed its nose to the left. William glanced that way and saw a passage through the wall up ahead, rubble covering the ground at its entrance. He followed after the wolf as it crouched down with raised hackles and started growling. He raised his sword into a defensive posture as he came to a stop beside the wolf, hearing a faint rustling and the crunching of rubble, and he saw the mottled-green head of an enormous snake slide out of the passage. Its tongue flicked out to taste the air, in and out again. The snake swiveled its head to face the two companions and started slithering out into the lane.

William patted the wolf’s haunch and whistled as he turned to flee. It took a

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