Scorched Shadows by Steve McHugh

Author:Steve McHugh [McHugh, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN: 9781542046602
Amazon: 1542046602
Publisher: 47North
Published: 2017-12-18T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

Nate Garrett

The Shadow Falls realm gate was made of similar materials as all the others, but the one in Portland glowed a dim purple. Getting from the bar area to the realm-gate room had consisted of going through several dozen guards and more than a few doors that required retina scans. Arthur might turn up here and demand to see Galahad, but this was Shadow Falls territory and if Arthur wasn’t careful he could find himself in a fight that would last for months, if not longer. The levels below the bar had stockpiles of weapons and supplies to last a long time. And I doubted that Arthur would want to turn a major human city into rubble just to get to Galahad. But clearly there were people within Avalon who would stop at nothing to start this war.

Rebecca was one of half a dozen guardians who worked with the realm gate I was asking to use. Half a dozen almost-immortal warriors who would defend this place to the last, so long as they remained close to the gate. If Arthur tried to force his way through, he’d need to get the guardians to open the gate—which would never happen—or make his own. And that was a lengthy process. Either way, if Avalon did try to take Shadow Falls by force, it wasn’t going to be a quick fight.

One of the guards in the realm-gate room activated the gate. “Harrison isn’t going to be pleased to see you,” Rebecca told me.

“He’s never pleased to see me. The man lives and breathes to be as miserable as possible at all times.” I stepped through the gate into Shadow Falls.

The realm-gate room in Shadow Falls was inside a temple on top of a hill just outside of the massive sprawling city by the name of Solomon. When I was last in the realm, a million people lived there, and from what I’d heard that number had increased over the years. Being a king suited Galahad a lot more than most people I’d met in the same position.

I stood in the realm-gate room as several guards and guardians watched me with a kind of concerned interest. I guessed that my friends had arrived and delivered the bad news. The realm gate shut off, and Harrison strode toward me as if he owned the place, which, because he was the head of Shadow Falls security, wasn’t far off from the truth.

Harrison was huge. Imposingly so. He had the kind of physique that people only achieve after years of injecting themselves with large quantities of steroids. His ginger hair was still long, and tied back in a ponytail. In fact he didn’t appear to have changed in any way since I’d last seen him several years earlier.

“I am not happy to see you,” Harrison said, his voice deep and full of bass.

“Yeah, well the feeling is mutual.”

He brandished a sorcerer’s band and passed it to me. “You need to wear one of these. Don’t argue.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.