How I Stole the Princess's White Knight and Turned Him to Villainy: Miracle 2 by AJ Sherwood

Author:AJ Sherwood [Sherwood, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: AJ Sherwood
Published: 2022-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

Six

Tan

Hunter’s Woods hadn’t changed any, of course. Still thick with trees and shadows, the faint sound of birds and insects greeting them. Tan had always considered it a pretty place. He liked this kind of atmosphere, with the earthy smell, ancient trees reaching toward the sky, the perpetual dampness of the earth below. Tan had deliberately built Grimslock nearby so he could take a stroll through these woods when it suited him.

He was just as glad Devan had talked them out of burning it. Tan had been just a little upset at the time, which was why it had sounded like a good idea. He’d have regretted it if they actually had gone through with that plan.

Right now, he had that antsy feeling in his fingers and limbs that always made an appearance before a real fight broke out. Tan was excellent in battle, if he did say so himself, but vampires? No one sane fought vampires. If he hadn’t been so enraged that this creature dared touch his knight, Tan wouldn’t be waltzing in here. The memory of Devan unconscious and barely breathing, though, that stuck in the back of his throat like a bitter pill he couldn’t swallow. No way in hell would he let this pass. The fire in his blood demanded vengeance.

Nothing about their group was inconspicuous as they walked along the road. The eight skeletons jangled, bones clacking, as they formed a defensive ring around everyone else.

Fa loved everything dark and undead, so she chattered happily away with Niran’s latest acquisition. “What’s your name?”

The skeleton turned its head, eyeless sockets fixated on her. “Big John.”

“You’ve been undead for a week or so, right?”

“Right. Bone Daddy found me.”

Devan choked beside him, then poorly disguised it as a clearing of the throat. Tan patted his back even as he snickered in amusement.

“Not meant like that, dearest,” he corrected.

“I’d hope not.” Devan shook his head and pointed ahead. “The abandoned cart up there, that’s the first sign of her. You’ll see the two woodcutters just there on the other side of it.”

Fa clapped her hands in delight. “There’s corpses? Devan, you should have said so!”

Without a care in the world, she portaled right ahead, then knelt beside the nearest corpse, abandoned next to its cart. She poked at it and crooned.

“Such a lovely corpse, yes you are. Why don’t you come home with me?”

Niran perked up with interest. “Is it intact? How’s the spine?”

Tan had more or less predicted his two siblings would react this way and wasn’t the least bit bothered by their actions. He did note that the two big, strong knights, hardened by battle and mayhem, looked a bit green. The sight of two black sorcerers poking at a decaying corpse was apparently too much for them.

Wimps.

“Right,” Wells muttered. “Necromancer. Of course he’d be interested in more corpses. Why Fa, though?”

“Finding abandoned corpses that have no family to claim them is actually harder than it seems,” Tan offered. Not that he was excusing his brother, but he didn’t want these two jumping to conclusions.

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