King's Gate 2: A High Fantasy Harem by Daniel Pierce

Author:Daniel Pierce [Pierce, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-01T22:00:00+00:00

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I woke up with a shout, my heart pounding heavily in my chest, and looked around frantically before realizing it was just another nightmare. The fourth of the night, the brutal images of the battle with the giants still burned in front of me. Slowly they faded into the darkness. The dream had been only a few minutes long, reducing my night to a series of fits. The beds in the room were too narrow for me to share one with any of the women, and a few feet to the side of me I heard Riley groan. She was still asleep, but my restlessness was obviously affecting her. I didn't want to keep anyone else awake and dealing with the same frustration, so I slipped out of the bed, intending to go into the parlor and grab some sleep on the couch. As I walked out of the room, I noticed the bed Mathus had claimed was empty. This wasn't much of a surprise. He rarely slept well at night, usually opting to take guard duty for a few hours at a time. We rarely talked about it, but I knew the giant was struggling with the same types of nightmares that kept me up at night. I could only imagine the memories of his berserker rage still haunted his mind. That battle was different for him than it was the rest of us. We were fighting against an enemy standing in front of us. Mathus was fighting against his own.

Taking a blanket and pillow with me, I made my way down the hall to the parlor. Part of me expected to find Mathus there, pacing around the room or eating some of the food left over from dinner. But the room was empty, only the lingering remains of a fire burning on the hearth giving any movement to the space. After tossing the pillow onto the end of the couch, I dropped down and pulled the blanket up over me. The room was warmer than the bedroom, but even that didn't help me to calm down. After a few minutes of tossing around and trying to convince myself to go to sleep, I decided a walk might to be what I needed to clear my mind and ease myself back into rest.

The night was slipping by quickly, and I didn't want the only chance I had of getting sleep, before the hard day ahead of me, to disappear. I made my way through the herb shop and out onto the empty sidewalk. The abandoned buildings might have been unnerving anywhere else, but they looked oddly calm and comforting here, almost like they were just sleeping. I realized it was because I knew I'd much rather be outside at night in the abandoned area of the city than awake in the streets, probably still crawling with guards and overzealous followers of The Covenant.

Just as I'd hoped it would, my mind cleared as I made my way down the sidewalk.

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