Relic: Spear by Ben Zackheim

Author:Ben Zackheim [Zackheim, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

“Hey… doggy,” I said.

He leaped over the dining table and crashed into the chairs next to me. His momentum carried him and the furniture all the way across the room. The mess of fur and ex-chair slammed against the wall and we all clenched our teeth. That looked painful. But the mutt stood right up and ran just as fast at me again. I held my hands up. “Sit!”

His claws popped out and dug into the floor. Once again, his momentum carried him across the room. But this time he left a long, deep set of scratches in the floor.

He came to a sitting halt right in front of me. His long tongue slid out and dropped about three quarts of slobber on my feet. I tried to back away from him, but I slipped and fell flat on my back. He got down on his belly and flopped on his side, gently placing his massive head on my chest.

Freya smiled, trying not to laugh.

Lucas let out a sound like a pissed-off bird. His version of a chuckle, I guessed.

Ronin could have used the moment to take a deep dig at my pride. But, surprisingly, she asked exactly what I should have already asked. “Fuck Odin. Can you help us find the spear?”

“The spear?” Freya asked, cocking her head. “Do you mean the spear of Gungnir?”

Ronin nodded.

We all waited for some kind of reaction from the goddess. But her face was unreadable. Her stare didn’t falter from Ronin.

“You are of the Adalgard family,” Freya said softly.

“I am.”

“Then you know the answer to your question. Your family has the spear, girl.”

“First of all, don’t call me girl.”

“Ronin!” Lucas yelled, horrified at her tone.

“Shut up, demon, or I’ll circumcise that thing on your face. Second, Freya, no we don’t have it. We had a replica. I think my father took the real thing.”

The goddess leaned back in her chair. She placed her hands on her knees and sat still for a whole minute. I stood up and found a chair that was in one piece. The dog followed, and laid down behind me.

“Kane,” Freya said. “When I told you and your friends to search this house for weapons to take with you on your journey, what did you find?”

“What does she mean?” Lucas asked.

“When I was here last, Freya told us to explore the place for anything that could help us in the fight.”

Lucas went wide-eyed. “A god gave you total access to their home? Do you have any idea what kind of a gesture that is? What did you find?”

My memory of the night was unsullied. It was the night Dino died. “We found a black rose,” I said.

“A portent of death?” Lucas asked. “That’s just about the last thing I’d want to find.”

“My friend Dino was killed soon after.”

“The black rose is a sign of inevitable death?” Ronin asked. I nodded.

“I’m sorry to hear that, Kane,” Freya said. “But his death had to mean something. You found what you were meant to find.

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