One Moo'r Plow Book 2: Redeemed. by Invictus Exemplar

Author:Invictus, Exemplar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29: Gone, but not forgotten.

Dragons, gods, the ability to shift between forms at will, apocalyptic wars once waged eons ago. I was not wholly shocked by this all, once the raw surge of memories had passed. If anything, I would have been flabbergasted if the history of this world were mundane.

My next words came after several moments of careful consideration.

“You’re a dragon.”

Perhaps I could have worded that to be less blunt, yet I merely stated the obvious.

“Oh no.” Le’rish shook her head, a tinge of regret and wistfulness in her voice. “Dragon-spawn at best. And even then among the weakest there might have been. See, I only ever found a sliver of the egg, a fraction of the intended power.”

“And that alone turned you into the Apex?”

“Forcibly.”

One thing did leap to mind upon hearing that.

“Why tell me ? Why… now?”

Silence reigned for a moment.

“You were the first to uncover the truth. Kept the secret. Saved my life again.” She spoke hesitantly at first, conviction growing with every word.

“Not to interrupt, but Velton and-”

“They suspected. Never knew, I don’t think.” Le’rish interrupted. “For the several years that have passed since my transformation happened, I left them alone and they returned the favor. My nose was kept out of their business and theirs out of mine.”

This lined up with everything I had learned about the elf and his family. Le’rish was very much a loner, and they in turn had left her to her solitude.

“Why now?” I repeated.

“The dungeon is stirring. Again.”

Words that I dreaded to hear.

“Velton has spent almost no time in this house since I was placed here. Tehalis has not been home once. They refuse to tell Ishila anything, but I know what is happening.”

So suddenly tired was I that the need to ask her vanished. Only evermore trouble came from the mountain.

“The other fragments of the egg stir inside the dungeon. I can feel it. They demand to be made whole again. So that Ash-Tul’s specter can return.”

“And what, pray tell, do we do about that?”

Le’rish stopped mid-pace and shrugged, just as lost in all this as I was.

“Are we required to do anything about it?” She asked. “What obligates us to intervene? For my part, if not for Ishila, I would pack my things and leave.”

“An option I lack.”

I was now Godtouched . Of interest. Expected to provide entertainment to the Gods Above.

Some part of me wondered if this new stirring, this sudden development was not their doing. Had one of them decided the proverbial pot needed be shook and new flavor made to rise?

The great revelation that they were outsiders did not phase me, I found. The simple fact that Gods lived above and dictated this world had been a shock, yes. But their origins were irrelevant. They simply were . Perhaps this knowledge might upset those who believed otherwise, but what was in the past remained firmly there.

To leave the farm would be the safe, sensible option here. Travel somewhere safer, set up again and continue my toils.

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