Fury's Goddess by Alex Archer

Author:Alex Archer
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Worldwide Library
Published: 2011-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Annja hit the ground, and the wind jumped out of her lungs. She continued tumbling down a steep slope until at last she came to rest at the bottom.

In pitch-darkness.

Annja got to her feet slowly, unsure of herself at first. But the pain in her ankle had subsided, and she suspected it hadn’t actually been sprained at all, just more of a strain. Her head felt a little bruised but not nearly as bad as it had been the last time she rolled down a steep embankment. This time she was conscious and able to tuck her chin into her chest to protect the back of her skull.

Thank goodness, she thought.

But where was she?

She looked around her but could see very little in the darkness. Annja materialized the sword, and instantly, she got some illumination. But the sword’s grayish glow only expanded so far. And all Annja could see around her was the inside of the mountain.

Had she somehow gotten herself back into the mountain by another route? But if so, then how come Kormi hadn’t told her about it?

Maybe he didn’t know, she thought.

He did say something about Dunraj possibly having an entire network of tunnels that no one else knew about. But why would he need those? How come he couldn’t travel like the rest of his men?

Was he up to something other than ritual murder for his beloved Kali?

She wandered gingerly back to the slope and looked up. She’d fallen almost thirty feet down the steep incline. Had it not been for that sloped path, she would have simply dropped and died when she hit the ground.

How long would it be before the rest of Dunraj’s men found their way into the secret passageway? She couldn’t count on them not finding it. And that meant she’d have to find her way out of here.

She certainly couldn’t go back the way she’d just come, not unless she wanted to have to battle the fifty or so men who were probably crawling all over that rock.

No thanks.

Annja held the sword aloft. Its light showed that she was in a smaller cavern than many of the others she’d been in throughout the fortress. Annja hobbled from end to end and then finally saw the passageway that led out of the cavern.

Annja was confused. The entire place was hard to find and harder still to orient herself to. Where was she going? Where did this passage lead?

Nothing to do but get busy doing it, she decided. She moved into the next passage, and the air grew darker around her still. But the sword managed to shed some light.

She’d moved into a tight tunnel that she could barely stand in. The point of her sword brushed the ceiling several times, giving off a scraping sound that seemed to echo back into the other chamber.

She’d have to remember to keep the noise to a minimum.

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