Halcyon Rising: Breaking Ground by Thomas Stone

Author:Thomas, Stone [Thomas, Stone]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

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The guards cuffed my hands behind my back and pushed me through the town. I walked past the shops I had just spent a ton of gold coins in. The proprietors stood in their doorways, shaking their heads at me.

The temple was just ahead. The head priest stood outside, then came running when she saw my face.

“Guards!” Eranza yelled. “There may have been a mistake.”

“No mistake,” one of the guards said. “We brought in a truth witch. He sang like a bird.”

“He’s a head priest,” she said.

“So what?” the lead guard asked.

“So,” she said, “you can’t throw a head priest in jail. It would cause a diplomatic nightmare because it would break the Free City Pact that affords all head priests safe passage through the human lands. You’ll need to talk this over with the Mayor.”

The guards let go of my arms, which were still shackled together. “Why does shit like this always happen on a Monday?” the guard asked.

A man with a very formal-looking shirt walked out of the temple. It was buttoned from his neck down to three inches below the waistline where it hung untucked by design. Pink, purple, and gold tassels hung from his shoulders.

“Can I not say a single prayer without this city devolving into emergency?” he asked. Two women stood just behind him wearing tall pointy hats like the truth witch’s. One hat was light blue, while the other was deep red. The women wore robes to match, and their faces were nearly identical: large, dark eyes framed by pretty, slender faces. The main difference was their expression. The girl in the red hat scowled while the blue-hatted one was all smiles.

“We’re sorry, Mayor,” the guard said. “We have a skillmeister here who used his ability making Blade more dangerous.”

“Is that who killed Scar this morning?” he asked.

These gangsters needed to hire someone to come up with better names for them.

“Yes, sir.”

“Did us all a favor then,” the Mayor said. “One less gang leader to contend with. How much did Blade pay you to increase his skills? Whatever it was, Scar was probably on his way to kill you and steal it all.”

“I didn’t know he was going to kill anyone,” I said. “I’m new at this. I just became a head priest two days ago.”

“And how, pray tell, did you manage that?” the Mayor asked.

“Meadowdale was attacked,” I said. “I escaped and found a goddess in trouble, so I helped her.”

“You escaped Meadowdale?” he asked. “No one escaped Meadowdale. We’ve been dying to know what happened.”

“Maybe you could un-cuff me?” I asked. The Mayor waved at the guards and they released my hands from the iron shackles.

“Duul, the god of war, has an army of dark soldiers. Their bodies and eyes are pitch black, like they’re made from evil itself, or maybe vegemite. Anyway, their weapons can kill the gods, and he’s going to conscript all of the world’s men into his ranks, and keep the women hostage, until he slays the Great Mother.

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