Knight, Eric T - Immortality and Chaos Complete Box Set by Knight Eric T

Author:Knight, Eric T [Knight, Eric T]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knightwriter Publishing
Published: 2016-09-15T23:00:00+00:00

Forty-two

They set out early the next morning and they moved at a steady run, nearly a hundred and fifty Takare men and women. By mid-morning Shakre was beginning to worry that she would not be able to keep up. Fortunately for her, Werthin ran along beside her. When her steps began to falter he stuck out his hand.

“Give me your pack.”

Shakre started to refuse, then shrugged out of the straps and handed it over. This was no time for pride. Losing the extra weight helped, but within an hour her legs were once again like lead, her breath burning in her chest. She had not seen Rehobim, who led them, in hours, and only intermittently did she glimpse the tail end of the line of warriors. Behind her she could hear Werthin, his steps steady and sure. When did she get so old? she wondered.

Werthin put his hand on her shoulder. “We will walk for a while,” he said.

“But we’ll be left behind.”

“It is no matter. We know where they are going. We will catch up.”

It felt good to walk. They had been steadily climbing for much of the day and this stretch was especially steep, with huge boulders that had fallen from the slopes of the Plateau scattered across the slope. Some had clearly fallen recently, carving a path through the trees as they went. The trees were thinner here but still huge, with moss coating their trunks and streamers of it hanging from the lower limbs. To her left the slope fell away down to a nameless valley floor far below. To her right loomed the bulk of the Plateau, much of its face unclimbable cliffs hundreds of feet high, like some primeval fortress.

The face was broken in places, where the lava had poured down. Twice that day they had been forced to climb over hardened flows that stretched far down into the valley. Those crossings had not been pleasant, the rock pocked with cracks and sharp edges. There were places where the stone had hardened and left air pockets just below the surface, the skin of rock covering them thin enough that anyone stepping on one would plunge through. Worst of all was the sensation she’d felt when she touched the rock with her bare hands. Pain like a dwindling scream lanced up into her arms when she did and she had jerked away, bizarre images dancing behind her eyes. There were things in the stone that did not die easily. It made her think of what Elihu had said about beings maybe living in the stone and water.

They reached the top of yet another slope and Shakre paused for a moment to catch her breath. Ahead the path dipped, crossed a flattened area, then began to climb again. On the far side she could just see the last of the warriors disappearing from sight. But that was not what held her attention.

Far ahead and off to her left was a mountain range, undoubtedly the Firkath Mountains.

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