Raging Fire: Soulmates by Tanya Rast

Author:Tanya Rast [Rast, Tanya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-25T05:00:00+00:00

Kal had shooed the warriors from their beds close to the fire. Some had been asleep, some had only been trying to find sleep. He made it clear to them that their nightmares acted as food and bait for the spawn. That was all the tired warriors needed.

Now he led a small troop of dwarves up the endless stairs of the Sevvern tree. Wake everyone up, that was the plan. Put small groups together, some of which had to watch over the sleep of the others, to shake awake anyone who drifted off recognizably into a nightmare. He had no idea if this could succeed. He couldn’t even imagine what it must be like to be haunted by such terrible images every night.

Yes, he did, a little. If the spawn resembled dreams, then he had already looked into a fanged maw far too often, driven the axe through scales uncounted times.

If only the legends of the ancients held more details! But so they were all fishing in the mud and could only try to improve something to avert worse disaster.

For the first time in his life, Kal thoroughly cursed in his mind the size of a Sevvern tree, the stairs winding up around its trunk. Icy wind roared through the half-open sides, swirling snowflakes in front of, behind, and seemingly through Kal against the bark of the trunk. Every breathtaking hurt. Kal anxiously wondered how the men and women behind him must fare who hadn’t recently been able to warm themselves by the flying sparks of the soul bond.

With each turn of the stairs he came closer to his goal, and from each step he had an unrestricted view of the fortifications. He saw smoke and flames lay a second line of defense in front of the palisade, rampart and moat. Ten was there, encouraging the fighters down there. He gave them strength, just by being with them. Just as Kal was an example to the dwarves behind him. Everything seemed madness!

Panting, he hurried further up, clutching the handle of the axe, keeping close to the bark of the tree, where he hoped for a bit of wind protection, although the gusts came from all sides.

He heard the now almost familiar sound of a tree trunk bursting. It was high summer, all the trees were in full sap, which froze in the frost waves and caused wood to splinter. The forest was dying — one trunk at a time. The mere thought choked Kal’s throat. He recalled Ten’s smile, the flash of white teeth in his mind’s eye, the sparkle in the blue eyes that were the same color as the summer sky above the forest.

Up another full turn, past living quarters that hung from the trunk like swallows’ nests. Behind him, Kal heard the panting of his companions, the hammering of their boots on the wooden steps.

At last he saw the great portal leading to chambers in the trunk and to adjoining cabins. He rushed up the last steps,

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