God Conqueror 2 by Logan Jacobs

Author:Logan Jacobs [Jacobs, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The descent was much less of a physical struggle than the ascent had been, of course, and we were able to move a lot faster. I worried that it was hard on the horses’ and the centaurs’ knees, so I dismounted from the destriers and walked beside them. None of the equines complained, I think partly because everyone was just so eager to get down to stable ground again.

It wasn’t possible to avoid rock fields altogether, but I was definitely a lot more cautious about the routes I chose after the incident in which we had almost lost the gnome and I had almost died fully.

Even so, we made it down right before dark.

As soon as we were on flat ground again and had taken a few liberating steps without worrying about starting a rockslide or falling off a cliff, Lizzy turned around and shouted at the mountain, “Fuck you, Mount Ugga! Fuck you, mountain spirit! Can’t catch us now! Suck on that!”

“Lizzy,” I said through gritted teeth as I glanced over at Willobee, with the thought that the gnome may have been a little traumatized by getting buried under an avalanche and then dangled from a treetop.

But he was smiling, and with his rosy cheeks he looked like the picture of health and contentment. He shrugged in response to Lizzy’s taunts. “She’s right about that, Master,” he said. “Qaar’endoth can go to Mount Ugga, but Mount Ugga cannot go to him.”

“I don’t really like mountain-climbing,” Ilandere remarked, to the surprise of no one, “but, you know, I kind of liked those woolly sheep things with the giant horns. They were kind of cute.”

“They started the rockslide,” Lizzy reminded her. “Big clumsy oafs.”

“They didn’t mean to,” the silver-haired princess pointed out.

“Sheep are nothing but trouble,” Lizzy declared. “The Sanctimians wouldn’t have been so miserable if they hadn’t been depending on something as stupid as sheep to survive.”

“I don’t think most villagers choose their own livelihoods,” I said. “It seems like they kind of just pick up whatever trade their forebears have been working for the last few centuries and stick with it. So I guess Sanctimia’s always been a sheep village.”

“People can always adapt if they choose to, smart ones anyway,” Lizzy declared. “I was a bandit and now I don’t do that shit no more, Florenia was a fucking noble and now she’s tramping through the dirt with the rest of us and happy about it too, Ilandere was some kinda horse princess and now she’s not either. Elodette is kinda doing her same thing as always I guess, but that’s just cause she’s stubborn, not dumb, and Willobee changes life stories on us whenever he feels like it. So none of us are stuck doing whatever dumb shit our ancestors used to is what I’m saying.”

“My family has always been very proud of our ancestors’ illustrious record of service to the kings of Ambria, and the lands that we have gained, and the monuments we have built, and the artists we have patronized,” Florenia remarked.

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