Juxta, Magi by Porter Geoffrey C

Author:Porter, Geoffrey C [Porter, Geoffrey C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-04-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Prince William met up with Rollin, and they rallied all the rangers together. The prince started his spiel, "Our capital is a ghost town thanks to this war. I want you to split up into squads and carry the news of our battle to the four corners of Lynken. Tell the people they can return to their homes here. What has been destroyed, we shall rebuild!"

The rangers cheered and then scattered to the four winds.

The cat-riders had suffered losses, and the cats didn't know what to do. They dragged their dead riders away from the battle scene and stood guard over the corpses. A number of cats had died, and their riders tried to win the friendship of the riderless cats. They didn't seem interested--they just growled and hissed when one of the catless riders approached them. The main body of cat-riders pursued the ogres eastward. William and Rollin approached one of the catless riders, and William asked, "What'll happen to these cats?"

"Once the riders start to smell, they'll abandon them. They'll either accept us as their new masters, or they may simply wander off. They may go feral. We're hoping they let us be their new masters, but we don't know."

Rollin rubbed his palms along his pant legs. "We'll have to hunt the feral ones down and kill them. Won't we?"

The cat rider's shoulders slumped down, and he stared off into the distance.

William glared. "Will we have to kill the feral ones?"

"Aye, some, but not all of them," the cat rider said. "Some will start hunting livestock and ultimately might kill a child or a farmer."

"Great."

"Would you have us kill every cat that has no rider?"

William groaned.

"We'll alert the people. If one of the cats starts going after livestock, we'll hunt it then," Rollin said.

William and Rollin rode back to the castle. They discussed the regular army and Nork's forces. They agreed the Nork's should be sent home. The regular army would be put to work rebuilding Capital city building by building starting with a new lumber mill and the smiths.

*

Juxta attempted to move small objects, and Quann gave advice. Juxta made little progress. Quann decided to channel power into Juxta to see if he possessed the rudimentary concept of moving objects worked out. Quann believed Juxta hadn't mastered the art of drawing large amounts of power calmly. Quann fed him power like a bottomless well. Juxta looped a force line around a copper coin and lifted it with his mind. Then he threw it hard and fast. Next he tried it on a barrel. He levitated it and then threw it. The rudiments of the spell seemed simple enough for Juxta.

Quann smiled.

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