Planeshifter Knight (The Blademage Saga Book 4) by Chris Hollaway

Author:Chris Hollaway [Hollaway, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 39

Woken by the gentle sway of the hammock, Kevon opened his eyes to the inquisitive gaze of two of his new Dwarven friends. “What!? What is it?” he asked, sitting up, to groans from his newly awakened companions.

Their benevolent hosts gestured for them to follow, and after a brief struggle to untangle from the luxurious hammock, Kevon and his friends followed the dwarves back out into the light of the village.

They walked down around the rodent pen to where a circular stone table was surrounded by a quartet of low stone benches. The table was littered with apples, tubers, and sectioned covaninal. Three other dwarves already sat, eating.

Kevon glanced back at the rodent pen. “The riders have returned, there are six mounts in the pen. I wonder how long we were asleep.”

“Almost long enough,” Yusa yawned, sliding onto one of the benches at the direction of one of their guides. “I hope we don’t sleep through the war that may be happening back home.”

“Agreed,” Kevon sighed, sitting next to Alanna, across from the captain. “We have to figure out how to find L’drom, and quickly.”

“These two here were the ones that rode out earlier,” Alanna commented, pointing to a pair of dwarves that shared the table. “Maybe they know something.”

Pointing to the pair, Alanna shifted her focus to the rodent pen, then the tunnel. She bobbed her hand up and down to simulate the riding motion of the furry steeds.

One of the dwarves smiled, and nodded his head. Chattering on in the unfamiliar tongue, he pointed to his mouth, then his partner’s mouth, then outward. He put his hands up to his head, fingers spread wide.

“They… talked, to… crown?” Kevon squinted as the dwarf kept motioning. “I think they went and talked to L’drom. It’s been the instinct of every people we’ve come across. He’s probably on his way.”

“Good,” Alanna breathed, withdrawing the eyepatch from her tunic pocket. “The light in here is giving me a headache. It works differently than in our world, or in M’lani’s realm. It has a different flavor that… is taxing. I noticed it when we were with M’drea, but everything here feels so much more…”

“More,” Kevon agreed, biting into an apple. “You don’t need a headache here if it isn’t helping anything.” He nodded to the rider who had explained their mission, and resumed eating.

After the meal was finished, the dwarves led the companions to a large pen on the far side of the village. The lights above were clustered closer together, brighter than the rest of the village. The pen had extra fencing inside it, two half-squares at nearly opposite ends of the enclosure, with extra boards lashed to them. The open-faced triangles faced each other across the length of the large rectangular pen.

“What is…” Yusa began to ask as four dwarves brought saddled rodents into the enclosure, and closed the gates.

The companions found themselves herded toward the center of the pen, where they waited for the others to meet them.

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