Nightstalkers- Origins by Timothy Ray

Author:Timothy Ray [Ray, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-23T16:00:00+00:00

II

They had decided to take an hour break while the dragon’s got a brief respite from their flight east. The rest of the team took advantage of the time on the ground and decided to make dinner in an attempt to lift their spirits now that they were out of enemy territory. They had succeeded after all.

She stood apart from the others, still bothered by the fairy’s words and the lost souls that had fallen on her watch. Her eyes were on Sherwood Forest, but her mind was deep within the Deadlands, her heart searching for the spark of light that had once been her husband. She did not believe for a second that he had betrayed her, that he had gone over to the darker side. It had to be bad intel, or there was something else at work that was making him do it. He would never abandon Adeline, or their marriage for that matter. They were having a rough patch, sure, but that didn’t change how deeply they felt for one another.

He had been eager to fight, had argued hard to do so. He hadn’t even known Morael was under attack, he had been heading to Branham when he was taken. It couldn’t have been prearranged. He couldn’t have known she’d be injured in the attack in the woods, that she wouldn’t be able to go herself when called upon. He had seemed sincere about wanting to do some good in this war, and it was hard to reconcile that with the image of him walking through an enemy stronghold free of chains and able to escape whenever he wanted.

If, and it was a very big if, he had turned, then why save her life when the Phoenix’s agents attacked? He could have easily ignored the situation or aided in taking her life. Yet, he had fought them just as viciously as she did, and it hadn’t been an act.

She married the man; she would have known.

“Still beating yourself up?” Reyna asked in a lighter tone, her face surprisingly friendly as she handed over a pint of ale.

“Wouldn’t you be?”

Reyna shook her head. “We suffered minimal casualties, and none to our own. We achieved our objective and we’re all headed home with our limbs attached, still breathing. That’s a win. Doesn’t matter how it was done, it’s over.”

She narrowed her eyes as she took a sip of the ale, the amount of alcohol so high that she could have gotten drunk on the smell alone. “What would you have done differently?”

“I’d have not lost my temper on my teammates. They’re feeling the loss just as much as you are. You don’t have to be a leader to feel responsible for those that die around you,” Reyna told her. “You’d be feeling this way had you just been a ranger and not our commander.”

“So, you would have taken them head on?”

Reyna shrugged. “Wasn’t much choice, was there? If we had a larger force, we might have been able

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