Queen of Demons by Kevin McLaughlin

Author:Kevin McLaughlin [McLaughlin, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Role of the Hero Publishing
Published: 2017-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

Twenty

Caius sloshed through the sewer muck, following Garanwyn, the boy who’d led him through the warehouse. The youngster hadn’t steered him wrong up above. Caius hoped he knew these foul passages just as well. Somewhere not far ahead was a revenant. And not far behind them were the revenants Morgan unleashed in the warehouse. The monsters hadn’t found the trap door yet. He’d have heard the fighting begin, if they had. But he knew that it was a matter of time, and not much of it.

He kept his breathing controlled as carefully as he could, because he could feel shivers running down his back, and it wasn’t just from the cold water filling the bottom third of the sewer tunnels. He’d run into these things a few times already, and although he’d been lucky enough to survive the encounters so far, Caius had a gut feeling that was only a matter of time. Eventually, he was going to be even the littlest bit unlucky, and a set of those terrible jaws would close on some tasty chunk of him...

Caius shook himself, trying to break out of this dark mood. He didn’t have time for it. Too damned many people counting on him, all of a sudden. He hadn’t expected to see so many people show up tonight. Scores of Glevum citizens – men, women, and children – trying to flee the city. And counting on him to show them the way out. To lead them, God help them all.

“Be ready,” Caius told the spearmen walking with him. “As soon as we see it, use your spears to pin it in place. I’ll finish the thing.”

They looked frightened. Morgan had shown off a couple of her pet revenants to the populace to cow them. It had worked. These people were terrified of the things. That was going to be a problem once they got outside. They’d have to face that fear more often than they would like.

He wished once again that Uther was here. The man would have known what to do. Would have taken charge, and taken action. But Uther was dead by his mad daughter’s hand. Arthur was gone, lost in Londinium. Kaelwyn was God-knew-where, trying to keep the other Londinium refugees alive. Caius felt like everything had flown apart, like all their carefully constructed lives were shattered and they were running around chasing pieces.

Up ahead, he heard the growl of a revenant. He motioned the spearmen to stillness and caught their young guide by the shoulder to stop him. The tunnel curved, up ahead. The shade of the darkness just outside their torchlight had changed somewhat. Was that a blue tone he could see? The dim illumination of starlight?

He took three strides ahead, rounding the corner – and there it was, a black silhouette against the heavy iron grille. Beyond those metal bars – freedom! But only if they could get past the monster barring their way.

“Now, men!” Caius said. The spearmen rushed forward, stabbing the thing with their weapons.

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