Fortress of Lost Worlds by T. C. Rypel

Author:T. C. Rypel [Rypel, T. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN: 9781479402861
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2014-05-31T00:00:00+00:00

“Still bound for a martyr’s death?”

Gonji sighed. “The prospect is strangely compelling. But you—and others—have given me more lively thoughts to consider now. There’s evil about, Neriah-san. Palpable evil that is committed to destroying me. I would know why.”

Neriah nodded in assent. “It abounds, but so does good. The Evil One revels in this religious strife.”

“Hai, but what do I have to do with it? That’s what I want to know.”

“Be comforted,” the merchant urged. “I must leave this place before I am suffocated. Shall I convey the word to your friends?”

“Word?”

Neriah angled a smile of impish privity at him. “Shi-kaze—Deathwind. The word that tells them you will lead them in the fight against the evil that threatens to devour Europe.”

Gonji bowed. “The word is given, then. Shi-kaze.”

Jacob bobbed his head in satisfaction and turned to go.

“Oh, Neriah-san—what of Simon Sardonis? Has anyone seen or heard from him?”

The merchant grimaced and shuddered. “No one,” he whispered. “Forget that tormented soul. He must seek his own redemption.”

Gonji was alone again. His mind raced backward and forward, sifting through the experiences of his life, attempting to make sense of them, weighing them against the new and electrifying information of the past day. He only dimly heard Valentina’s taunting of Neriah, as he departed, and the old man’s torrent of rebuffs and scathing criticisms of the deplorable dungeons.

Morales came to the door grating later that day, his last shift about to end. They exchanged good-byes.

“One last bit of advice,” Morales rasped in a voice shielded from eavesdroppers. “They never told you, but you chose the sanbenito that bespeaks the unrepentant soul.”

“Que?” the samurai puzzled.

“That robe. You might do better to ask for the yellow one, with the red St. Andrew’s cross before and behind. At least—feign repentance. For your own good, you know?”

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