Protector by Sam Ryder

Author:Sam Ryder [Ryder, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-29T22:00:00+00:00

Somewhere along the way, the bloody water became just water again. That was good. That made me feel like no more of my friends’ corpses would pop up to scare me or attack me. After the altercation with the Eve-not-Eve creature-thing-monster, I knew I might never get a good night’s sleep again, but I couldn’t help that. All I could control was what I did next. I’d come all this way, fought giant scorpion-spiders, met a giant named Buttplug and his harem, and lost one of my Warriors. I needed to make it count for something.

If I returned emptyhanded I might as well not return at all.

Fuck that.

When the blood cleared from the water, the mist lifted too, leaving me bobbing on a lake that suddenly felt too cheerful. There was something else strange:

Both suns were out. The effect of the dueling silver and bronze rays was beautiful and surreal, almost like what you might expect the sky to look like before, during and after the apocalypse. Too bright and unnatural.

My exposed skin, which was already tanned from days spent under the watch of each of this planet’s suns, felt like it was burning.

Unfortunately, I was all out of sunscreen. I needed to find some shade or I’d end up burnt to a crisp. Inwardly, I wondered if the goddess spittle doubled as aloe vera.

I peered ahead across the water, squinting against the brightness. It really felt like I was in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by nothing but water and my own thoughts.

But then—

There! It was only an outline at first, like an artist’s first few lines, hinting at the masterpiece that was yet to come.

An island.

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