Plague Seed (Plague Fall Trilogy Book 1) by Wade Alan Steele

Author:Wade Alan Steele [Steele, Wade Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2013-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

Trace

Trace scanned the stars from the balcony of Void Reach, the southernmost tower of the castle Thunder Deep. They were the same stars that hung over the head of Drayvus Varden somewhere to the south beyond the peaks of the Faylins. She knew her once lover, now puppet, would be reaching the village where they had met ten years before. She wondered if he was as lost in thought as she was about those days.

They were good, carefree times filled with gratuitous pleasures and lighthearted joy; she thought on them often, rarely with regret. Drayvus had been good to her and he was one of the few people that she trusted, but he could never fulfill her desires; there were few in the world of Art that could. She had learned from those days of scrapping by, working her fingers to the bone, and she was confident that without those days she would not appreciate the height to which she had ascended.

With those days behind her it should have been easier to look out over the army gathering in the enormous valley that surrounded Thunder Deep and be proud of where she stood, but nagging thoughts stepped between her and her pride.

Trace scraped her fingernails across the black reflective surface of the battlements as she examined the thousands of troops of all different races. Talandria would fall. Their army was vast, far greater than the numbers gathered below her, but spread throughout Talandria from the desolate Burnt Lands, to hidden pockets of soldiers in the Trade Kingdoms.

She tried to imagine a grumach nation and shivered. They were a cruel, monstrous breed of creature, capable of outrageous acts of random cruelty. No government ruled by the grumach had lasted long and she held doubts that, even under the iron hand of Fayer and the command of the finest human soldiers to which Talandria had ever given birth, any society spawned from their violent ways would flourish.

And Drayvus—he had been her lover and partner and friend, but most importantly, he had been her protégé. How could she be a partner in his destruction? They owed each other their lives. If there were such a thing called love, she had come the close to finding it with Drayvus. And now he would die and be the unwitting accomplice to the death of millions.

I was different then, she thought. That was when her ambition was capped at smalltime sell sword, often wondering from where her next meal would come. She had seen Dray as a means to an end; two swords against the world. That was before the messenger from Fayer came to see her and her sister.

Her head ached, as was ever common when stress would take her thoughts. She ran her fingers through her short, sun-kissed hair and then grabbed it violently as Fayer had done so many times before. She pulled at it until she could no longer take the pain. Trace needed to remind herself where she stood and whose bed she shared.

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