Power Mage 2 by Hondo Jinx

Author:Hondo Jinx [Jinx, Hondo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

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Brawley fled across a dry land on wobbly legs, the parched ground crumbling to dust beneath his feet.

Only he didn’t have feet. He had hooves.

Hooves that with each shuddering step sunk into the clutching soil of the baked land across which he traveled. The plain was flat, its unrelenting sameness broken only by tufts of brittle grass, skeletal trees that stretched like gnarled hands from the cracked land, and occasional tumbleweeds, which spun past borne upon hot winds full of grit and ash and strange, otherworldly aromas.

Overhead, a familiar sky churned, lurid purple shot through with runnels of darkness like spindles of infection brindling bruised flesh.

It was the sky Brawley had seen over Nightshade Lane, only this wasn’t the Miami cemetery, and he wasn’t Brawley.

At least his body wasn’t his own.

He was a fresh-born calf, searching for his mother as he fled across this burnt and blasted wasteland. With every wobbling step, the drought-stricken country clutched at his hooves, threatening to pull him down forever beneath its pall of pale dust.

Across this nightmare landscape Brawley struggled forward. He needed to find his mother, his father, his herd. But he was weak and alone, ill-prepared for this long journey beneath a churning purple sky, and an unknown menace pressed down heavily upon him, further slowing his stumbling retreat.

Brawley cried out with a terrified blat, which evaporated weakly into the hot, dry air.

“Beware the…” a wild voice warned before fading into the dim vastness at the far reaches of this boundless, nightmare country.

Brawley couldn’t place the voice, but that didn’t matter. What mattered was the spirit of the warning. The ultimate truth behind it.

Because something was coming for him.

Something great and terrible, something—

Its roar boomed down like thunder from the churning purple sky.

Brawley gave another blat and surrendered to his terror, trundling across the powdery land, which sucked at his shanks with ever step, slowing and tiring him, doing its best to pull him down and down and down, where it could end him, bury him beneath its brittle surface, and reduce him to so much dust.

At last, he sunk all the way to his heaving chest and could run no farther.

He cried out one last time to his mother, but the sound of his voice was lost as the great predator roared again, coming for him.

Eyes rolling with terror, Brawley twisted his head around and stared with incinerating horror up into the roiling purple sky, where an enormous pair of malevolent gray eyes glared down at him, shining with primordial hatred and triumph.

A deep voice shook the land. “Power Mage.”

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