Heroes of Issalia: An Epic Fantasy Saga (Runes Complete Series & Prequel) by Jeffrey L. Kohanek

Author:Jeffrey L. Kohanek [Kohanek, Jeffrey L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fallbrandt Press
Published: 2018-08-11T06:00:00+00:00

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Brock viewed the exchange between Parker, Cam, and the guards while standing just down the road from the garrison. When the third man began to shout and wave his arms about, Brock decided to intervene.

With staff in hand, he jogged toward where Parker and Cam were standing. As he drew close, he heard the captain accusing them of thinking him a fool. He then shouted for them to stop wasting his time. The female guard glanced toward Brock. Her eyes grew wide and she drew her sword.

“Captain! Look out!”

The captain paused his rant to look toward Brock and alarm raised in his eyes. His weapon was out in a flash.

“Bacabra!” the captain shouted.

Brock stopped and looked back at Wraith, who was following him. When he held his palm toward her, Wraith stopped, sat on the road, and tilted her head in curiosity. He turned toward the Paladins and grinned.

“You men are mistaken,” he shook his head. “This is just my dog, not some vicious bacabra.”

Brock glanced back and waved Wraith forward. Excited, she ran until she drew alongside him. He glanced at Wraith, who was matching his pace, before again addressing the Paladins.

“However, if you try to harm me, she’ll certainly not be so friendly.”

The two guards warily backed against the wall, but the captain held firm. His eyes narrowed, and he eased his sword back into its scabbard.

“I guess she doesn’t appear vicious like a bacabra. Her eyes aren’t red, either,” the captain noted. “Still, I’ve never seen a dog that huge.” The man’s eyes remained fixed on the giant dog.

Brock came to a stop a stride away from the man. “I bet if I came here yesterday and told you I had a dog this size, you’d think I was lying.”

The man scratched his head, nodding. “Yeah. Probably.”

Brock smiled. “But now that you see it, you believe it?”

The man nodded again. “How could I not?”

As Brock scratched Wraith behind the ears, her tongue hung lazily to the side and her eyes drifted closed at the attention.

Brock turned back to the man. “So, when my friends tell you that the Banished Horde is back and has decimated Sol Polis, you call them idiots who are wasting your time. You don’t believe it because you’ve never seen the Horde in your lifetime.”

The captain stared at Brock for a long moment. “I get your point.”

Parker pleaded with the man. “Please, sir. Just send someone on a horse to Sol Polis. If what I’m telling you is false, it will cost you nothing but one man for a week. However, if our story is true and you do nothing, it could cost thousands of lives.”

The captain’s eyes shifted toward Wraith and then back toward Parker.

“Very well,” the captain nodded. “I’ll send a man. If it checks out, we’ll have to act. If not, I will find you, and you’ll wish you’d never met me.”

“Fair enough.” Brock nodded. “I’ll also tell you that this isn’t our only stop. By the time you catch up to the Horde, they’ll probably have overrun most or all of the eastern provinces.

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