Knight of Darkness ~ Lords of Avalon Book 2 by Kinley MacGregor

Author:Kinley MacGregor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780061746345
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-04-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Varian led the way toward the sound, eager to see what’d happened now. He was expecting the very worst so when he broke through the forest to find a group of harmless greenish gray rocks surrounding Merrick, he was a bit perturbed by the man’s screaming.

Eyes wide, Merrick had pressed himself against a tree as if terrified of the inanimate objects.

Varian glanced around to look for Merrick’s brothers and Blaise, but they were nowhere to be seen. “Where are the others?”

“Sh!” he snapped angrily, “They’ll turn on you if you speak too loudly.”

Varian exchanged a frown with Merewyn. “I think he’s lost his mind.”

A wicked gleam lightened her eyes. “Maybe the rocks ate the others.”

Varian laughed at the absurd idea until two of the rocks turned slowly toward them as if they were sizing them up. He didn’t even have time to speak before the rocks flew at him of their own volition.

“Run!” he shouted, ducking out of their way. But they didn’t fly straight. Instead, they turned about and came at him like lightning. The first one hit him in the back, and the second struck his leg, knocking him to the ground. He was forced to lie on his stomach to keep them from striking his face. But as soon as he did that, they started pounding him along his back and on top of his head.

Damn! It hurt.

Merewyn squeaked, then ran to try to help him, which only caused the rocks to attack her as well.

“What are these things?” he shouted at Merrick before he summoned his armor back on his body to protect him. It worked only in that it kept the rocks from breaking his skull or bones, but he still couldn’t rise under the force of their combined attack.

“Gaulstones,” Merrick said from between clenched teeth as he pressed himself even closer to the tree. Given his fervor and fear, Varian was actually surprised the man wasn’t climbing it.

But that didn’t change the fact that the rocks were still hammering him. “Gallstones? They attack from the inside, not out.”

“No,” Blaise said from behind him, “they’re goylestones.”

Varian looked to Blaise, who was running toward them from the right. The mandrake rushed toward Merewyn to chase the stones away from her while Varian was still trying to pry them off his back.

“What the hell is a goylestone?” he asked the mandrake.

Instead of answering, Blaise, who had himself wrapped around Merewyn, made a deep, echoing dragon’s growl.

The rocks actually shuddered and cried before they scattered by rolling and running into the forest. Varian scowled at the sight of a couple of them that appeared to be waving stubby arms above their heads as they rushed off. They looked strangely like people.

That was the damnedest thing he’d ever seen, and as a sorcerer, he’d seen some rather freakish things in his lifetime. Rolling over, all he could do was gape at their flight.

Crossing the distance between them, Blaise held his hand out to Varian to help him up. “To answer your question, goylestones are the rocks that grow into gargoyles.

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