Rogue Mage: Age Of Magic - A Kurtherian Gambit Series (Path of Heroes Book 1) by Brandon Barr & Michael Anderle

Author:Brandon Barr & Michael Anderle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2017-08-10T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Payetta stroked the back of She Grunts, stopping with each stroke to scratch roughly at the base of her tail. Her skunk stood on the lip of an old stone hearth at one of the ruins close to Honey Hideout.

She Grunts chortled and smacked her lips as Payetta dug her nails into all the best scratching spots. Three other creatures stood obediently before them. A sparrow, a bull elk, and a lynx.

She’d never controlled three animals at once, especially maintaining control of the sleek predatory cat while managing the other two. Something inside her had switched on, driving her magic skills to leap forward in a way that shocked her.

What exactly it was that expanded her capabilities was a mystery, but she sensed it had to do with her ravenous desire to see Titannus dead at her own hands. Especially now, after he’d made a fool of her. The slightest memory of her confrontation with the mage caused her face and neck to burn red hot.

Perched on the back of the elk was the lynx, and on the elk’s massive antlers was the sparrow.

Payetta was split between each of the three and herself. It was as if her capacity to hold the animals had more than doubled. She didn’t fully understand how, but she knew it was connected to how she felt inside. Embarrassment at her failure to match Titannus’s skill. Anger and grief over Kirk’s death. Frustration and annoyance at her being called out by the newcomer in front of the entire Heroes Brigade.

Whatever was driving her newfound strength in magic, she wanted to tap into more of it. Now that she had the three animals before her, she wanted to experiment with how she might use this new ability. Could she control more than one of the three simultaneously?

It really was bizarre being in multiple bodies. So many sensations, and for the first time, she found herself able to see through multiple sets of eyes instead of just one. The panoramic view was shocking at first, but then, it wasn’t any different than when she closed one of her own eyes, looked out at the woods, then opened her second eye. It was just adding one more again and again until that single eye expanded into ten!

First, Payetta thought of a job for each animal, then she pictured what it would look like being carried out. All at once, she sent each animal on their mission.

Payetta stood, for she had given herself a job as well. As she stood, her visual orientation suddenly went chaotic. Each animal began to move and the panoramic view turned in five different directions. It was like being the brain for five different sets of eyes all walking in different directions.

She was tempted to just close all ten of her eyes, but she refused to give in to the strange sensation. For one thing, the gist of the new skill was working. The elk was making a circle in front of the

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