Return of the Danu by Kelly Lucille

Author:Kelly Lucille [Lucille, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KLM
Published: 2018-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Elena did not need to tell the men when they were getting close to the ambush sight. She felt the shifting of the horse under them as the battle readiness infused the warriors. The gypsies were good at their nefarious purpose, making no sound and giving nothing obvious away, but the Southern warriors knew anyway. Perhaps the people of the South had their own kind of magic, she mused. Or Ansgar's connection to his Frendi horse was more solid than she had imagined, which she supposed was a magic in itself. Whatever the case, the gypsies did not stand a chance, even with their greater numbers.

The battle cry slashed through the silence of the wilds and Elena reached out a hand and snagged a vine she called down to herself. A moment later she was whisked off the horse and out of the way among the high branches. For a moment she had wondered if Ansgar would fight to keep her, but after the slightest tug she was up and away, and he was in the thick of battle.

The gypsies jumped at them from the rocky outcrop high above taking the advantage it offered them. Unfortunately for them the advantage was not enough to counter the cold steel of swinging swords in the hands of warriors born to use them.

She watched from the safety of high above in the trees, only acting when an archer set his sights on one of the battling men in her party. Then both the gypsy and his bow and arrow would disappear in a quickly cut off screech of fear. Since he had asked her so nicely Elena left the rest of the attackers to Ansgar and his men. Hacking swords and spraying blood made her glad she was well out of the fight. The men would need a bath when the fight was over.

This closed in section of road was edged on one side by the start of the rock cliffs and a deep tight thicket of Green on the other side.

To use those knives they were so fond of, they had to get closer than they were managing. She took out another archer hidden in the trees and sent beasts that had come in response to her call after one man who saw the error of their ways and tried to run. But the rest she left to the three warriors beneath her on war horses. The horses, she noted seemed to enjoy the carnage nearly as much as the warriors. The gypsy attack died a quick death.

There was only one other of the enemy she bothered with, and that was the one who stood atop the rocks and directed the fighting. That one she identified and snapped up into a cocoon of Green before he could even cry out his surprise. That one she held on to until the rest of the battle was over, and all the rest of the miscreants were bloody pieces and silence reigned on the North road.

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