Queen of Monsters and Madness: The Aermian Feuds by Kay Frost

Author:Kay, Frost
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781736709023
Publisher: Renegade Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-07-12T00:00:00+00:00

Tehl

He stood fifty paces from the crumbling Mort Wall, his quieting camp behind him. A cool breeze ruffled his hair as he examined the tall grass blades. Nothing moved, but the creaking jungle trees on the other side of the wall sent chills up his spine.

He eyed the crumbling stone barrier. The wall was a joke, really. After learning about the Scythians, something as common as stone would never keep them out if they were truly determined. So, why had they been kept apart for so long? Was it because of their radical ideas? How had the warlord kept the people complacent? It was human nature to be curious, to want to explore.

A snort escaped him. By fear, no doubt.

He was man enough to admit that the warlord gave him chills. A leviathan seemed downright docile next to the hulking man. He scanned the swaying grass, his hand resting on his sword. Where was Sage? Was she running right now? Hiding? Fighting?

“If you don’t sleep soon, you’re likely to collapse,” Lilja’s silky voice called.

Tehl turned toward the woman perched on a rock just to the right of him. She’d sat there in silence for the last few hours. His designated escort. Part of him took offense that his council assigned him an escort, but the rational part of him knew they were right. Scythians were powerful, and he needed someone equally powerful on his side to protect not just himself, but Sage as well.

“I can’t sleep,” he admitted. “My decisions repeat in my mind. I can’t help but wonder if I had done things differently, would we be in this situation?”

“I understand.” Lilja tossed a small rock into the silvery grass. “But we can’t go back, no matter how much we wish we could.”

“I know.”

Logically, he did. But emotion wasn’t logical.

“Do you have any regrets?” he found himself asking. He cringed at the personal question he’d just lobbed at her.

“Many things,” she said. “I’ve seen much sorrow in my life, but much good. I can’t regret the good things that came from the bad.”

“That was one way to—” he cut off his words as Lilja held her hand in the air.

Her magenta gaze cut to his as she slid off the rock and into a crouch. Ever so slowly, she raised her finger to her lips. His muscles tensed, his gaze scouring the area for whatever put the Sirenidae on edge. His eyes narrowed as two large shadows shifted on the other side of the wall. Shadows much too large to be Sage.

Lilja shot him a glance and held her hand up, signaling for him to stay. She slunk into the tall grass and disappeared from view without a sound. Tehl released his breath and pulled his sword from his scabbard with care. The blade slipped free with naught but a soft hiss. Yet somehow that slight noise was loud enough that the shadows creeping through the gap in the wall froze.

One heartbeat, two, and then they rushed him. He shifted his stance and braced himself.

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