God Conqueror by Logan Jacobs

Author:Logan Jacobs [Jacobs, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

We traveled for the rest of the day at a slightly faster pace than when the ponies had still been dragging the carriage. Damask and Diamond seemed slightly disoriented by the change and tended to drift toward each other to trot along side by side just as if they were still in their harness. We did not stop for a midday meal since we had used up the last of our food stores at breakfast.

When it began to get dark, we chose a spot with wind shelter and clear lines of sight to set up camp. Of course, now that we no longer had the carriage, setting up camp really just meant dismounting and unloading our packs. Willobee never even hobbled his ponies to keep them from straying too far. He insisted that it would run contrary to their every instinct to leave his side. I didn’t mention the fact, but it seemed to me that the ponies worshipped and adored the centaurs even more than they did their gnome master, especially the radiant princess.

I had been a little wary of the unwanted attention that a fire might draw the night before when Elodette had attacked us and proved my fears justified, but I did not feel that way tonight. We were so far off the beaten path by now that we had not met a single other traveler all day, so there was no incentive for brigands to prowl these parts. There also weren’t any temples nearby that I knew of, which meant that we were likewise unlikely to encounter Thorvinians on the warpath. And if we did, I relished the prospect of annihilating them, now that I had a peerless archer who could also trample warriors beneath her hooves, a giant wolf who would rampage gleefully through their ranks, and both of my selves available and well-armed, unlike the night of the massacre.

So while Elodette went off to hunt down some dinner, the rest of us built a large and toasty blaze by which to warm ourselves. I doubled myself to help with the fire-building, which also provided both Lizzy, who remained human for the purpose, and Florenia with laps to sit on afterward. Ilandere lay down close to the fire and allowed Willobee to lean back against the warmth of her horse flank although she made him remove his chainmail shirt first because she said that the metal links poked her. The little gnome quickly fell into a contented sleep, and the ostrich plume in his cap bobbed with the rhythm of his snores.

“What you did with that bridge today was wonderful,” Ilandere told me, in a soft voice so as not to wake the gnome, “and I know that Elodette was very impressed, too. Even if she’d never admit it.”

I knew the princess was right. It was funny, because Elodette hadn’t been impressed at all by my ruthlessly efficient takedown of a dozen mounted bandits in defense of Nillibet’s order, even though she’d witnessed that too.

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