Flight of the Nighthawks: Book One of the Darkwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist

Author:Raymond E. Feist [Feist, Raymond E.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Published: 2009-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

DISCOVERY

Nakor looked around.

“What exactly are we looking for?”

Pug motioned around himself, swinging his arm in a wide arc ahead of them. “Since Leso Varen fled Olasko, we’ve been trying to find the range of his ‘death rifts,’ for lack of a better term.”

“That much I know,” said Nakor, walking though knee-high grass.

They were standing with Ralan Bek in the middle of a wide grassland that swept down from the mountains to the east, approximately three days’ ride from the border between the Kingdom of the Isles and the Duchy of Maladon and Semrick. Had they traveled by horseback from the nearest city, Maladon, it would have taken another four days.

Bek stood watching the two men wandering through the grass in front of him and laughed. “Are we going to be walking around in circles all day?”

Pug glanced at the troubling young man and nodded. “If need be. Over a year ago we found evidence of some very powerful, very dark magic, and without boring you further, let’s just say that there is a relationship between that magic and a great deal of trouble yet to come.

“It would help us if we could find…the track, if you will, between the place this magic originated—in Olakso’s capital, Opardum—and somewhere else. Our best calculations indicate that we should find a place where we can pick up that trail somewhere near here, if that makes sense.”

Bek shook his head and laughed. “You name places I’ve never heard of. One moment it’s mid-winter, and the next it’s summer. You speak with a strange tongue, yet I can still understand most of what you say.

“Besides,” he added with another laugh. “I was not given the choice about being here or not. So, here I am.” He narrowed his gaze at Pug. “And none of it makes sense.”

Pointing to a stand of trees a hundred yards to the north, he added, “But I think you’ll find what you’re looking for over there.”

Pug raised his eyebrows as he looked at Nakor, who shrugged. The two men turned toward the trees and Nakor said, “I don’t sense anything.”

“Varen worked hard to disguise his work. Look how long it took us to trace the link this far.”

Turning to Bek, Nakor said, “Stay here so we can mark this spot if we find nothing in the trees.”

Bek took off the black hat he had taken from the man he had killed at the Talnoys’ cave and feigned a courtly bow. “Your wish is my command, Nakor.”

The two old friends walked toward the trees and Pug said, “Have you thought about what we should do with him?”

Nakor said, “The simple solution is to kill him.”

“We’ve murdered for our cause, but only when we judged that there was no other way.” Pug glanced back at Bek who stood quietly where they had told him to wait. “And had you thought that there was no other way, I am certain you would never have brought him to Sorcerer’s Isle.”

“True. Potentially, he may be the most dangerous man we have ever encountered.

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