Fire and Steel by Martin Parece

Author:Martin Parece
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Epic, Fiction
ISBN: 9781478113577
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-05-29T23:00:00+00:00

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In the weeks since Rael’s death, Keth had taken to training the Dahken, as Rael would have, and he worked with Marya and Celdon daily. In Rael’s quarters, he found volumes of history covering a wide range of topics, all of them written in Rumedian and in Rael’s hand. Keth assumed that Rael had scribed them from memory; Cor had told him the story of Sanctum, its destruction and the vast wealth of knowledge that Taraq’nok had burnt with it. With these Keth enlisted Marya’s help, as she had picked up the Rumedian language far more readily than he had. In fact most of the younger Dahken, the children, seemed to more easily adapt their mind to the ancient tongue. And that was exactly it – Keth simply could not learn to think in any other language. When he read a text in Rumedian, he found himself translating each sentence, if not each word as he went, whereas Marya could simply read it unhaltingly as easily as he could read Western.

Today Dahken Keth fumed, and the momentary diversion of the fat priest rolling down a hill into the mud below did little to raise his mood. His session with Marya and Celdon had gone well, and he thought the two advanced as well as he could expect. It was Geoff that made him so furious; he arrived at the training grounds in his usual disheveled and hung over form, but this time he still drank from a wineskin. Keth endeavored to keep him from distracting the others, and after a few minutes Geoff wandered off, likely back to his quarters. Keth disbanded the group for lunch, in fact deciding that they were done for the day.

He had not yet gotten used to wearing his armor, but Cor made it clear that he must do so every day, especially now that he was so involved in training the younger Dahken. Shortly after they arrived at Fort Haldon, Cor had the blacksmith begin to fashion armor for both Keth and Geoff, though the latter never wore his. The smith had given them some options, and Keth chose a relatively plain chain shirt with cowl and a steel breastplate with a high shine that strapped on around his sides and over his shoulders. He also wore steel plate legguards and sabatons over leggings of chain. A simple cotton shirt and leggings protected his skin from the harsh links of the chainmail. The plate pieces shined silver in the sunlight, a bright contrast to the hard gray of the chainmail. Keth postponed any combat for the first few days after he began wearing the armor while his muscles learned to work while encased in steel; it was a strange sensation, and he found it tiring.

Dahken Keth very nearly climbed the hill to speak with his lord, but when he reached the bottom of the slope, he instead turned about to confront Geoff himself. If Geoff didn’t want to be a part of

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