Gemini Warrior (Gemini Man Book 1) by J. D. Cowan & Thomas Plutarch

Author:J. D. Cowan & Thomas Plutarch [Cowan, J. D. & Plutarch, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

They spent the rest of the day in training with their swords. Alain thrashed Jason handily, but the boy did pick up a few tricks for handling his blade. Matthew couldn’t help but admire the kid’s fire and refusal to stay down. His spirits rose abnormally high.

At sunset, the two of them and the siblings gathered on the ramparts. Matthew traced the path they would be using in the morning for the boy. He’d gone over it in his mind many times while Jason slept without dreams.

There they saw the road that went miles into the distance. Halfway up the path waited a destroyed town that had been raided by lizard men decades ago. Far beyond it and over rolling hills sat the last town before Nerono. After that was a two-day journey to the city.

“I still wish to see the others,” Alain said. “But I will offer you two my sword.”

“Can you at least tell me what the hermit gave you?”

“It’s this.” Alain removed a tiny slab of a mirror. The shard glinted sunlight across their faces. “He said it was a piece of a Mirror Gate, but it doesn’t do anything at all. I kept it as a gift, but it appears quite useless. I would offer it to you, but I plan on traveling with you regardless.”

Matthew scanned the horizon, tracing their possible path. “You two don’t have to follow us. I’m still not sure how exactly we’re going to handle this. Shaula will probably find us soon.”

“We cannot leave until I properly defeat you in a duel, Matthew.”

“What?” He asked, incredulous at the idea. “Why?”

“You interfered with my duel. You should be grateful it is not Sir Orach. I will only crush you—he would take your head.”

Matthew laughed to himself. “You Earthwalkers are something else. Honor is everything, huh? Me? I would have just kicked you in the throat and called it a day.”

“I would expect that from you.”

Ordopha sighed. “Men. Can you two think of nothing else but violence?”

“I guess I just don’t get it,” Matthew said.

“Well, you are human. I’m sure there are many things you do that we cannot understand.”

“The Abbot is lending us three cat-trals for the journey,” Alain replied. “We’ll be in the village in half a day. Compared to the mountains, this is nothing.”

Unless Matthew’s bomb went off. But he didn’t need to mention that. They had enough worries without him adding his own. Shaula would be crazy enough to set it off, if she could, but he had to hope she wouldn’t. Otherwise, he would ever be able to relax.

Crows squawked from the branches of nearby trees and chatter from soldiers erupted from below. The slow descent of the orange horizon darkened blue. Night arrived.

Soon enough Alain and Jason left them alone. The boy was tired and unwilling to talk about the seed and Alain wanted to attend Intactilis one more time. Matthew waited with Ordopha for what felt like hours as the remaining curve of the sun seemed stuck in the sky.

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