Serpent of Fire: The Cloud Warrior Saga by Holmberg D.K

Author:Holmberg, D.K.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2015-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

17

Fire and Earth

Tan settled to the ground in the mountains where Par-shon had attacked the night before. In the daylight, the rocks had some remnants of the bloodshed, but it was difficult to see, blending into the stone and disappearing, looking like nothing more than shades of darkness among the rock. The ground was disturbed and the plants that had grown up throughout this part of Ethea were trampled but had already begun to press up from the ground again, a day in the sun giving them renewed life.

Why had he chosen here to visit? This should have been the last place that he wanted to come. He felt drawn here although he didn’t quite know why.

After leaving Amia, he needed a moment to think and determine what he needed to do first. Why, then, had he chosen here?

There was little other evidence of the attack. The Par-shon woman had been buried, claimed by Cianna’s urging and Tan’s shaping. The draasin had devoured the others. He surveyed the small clearing, and a glint of metal caught Tan’s eye. Impaled into a massive boulder, Tan found the curved sword the Par-shon warrior had attacked with. He grabbed it and pulled it free with strength enhanced by earth shaping.

The sword had a long, curved blade, the end much wider than the warrior sword he carried. It tapered toward the ornately carved hilt capped with a blood-red stone. Tan turned the sword from side to side and studied the runes worked along the surface.

There was a sword much like this in the lower level of the archives. If the fallen Par-shon warrior had one, then maybe the swords weren’t as unique as he’d thought.

What did it mean that there was another shaper able to divert his most powerful shaping? When he bound together each of the elements, it created a shaping strong enough to sever the bonds forcing shaping on the elemental. Whatever he had faced had managed to deflect that. What else would Par-shon be able to throw at them that he still didn’t know about?

A great shadow circled overhead and Asboel settled to the ground next to him. He looked upon Tan with golden eyes and then blinked slowly. You return to the hunt?

I don’t know why I returned, Tan admitted. How to explain that he felt compelled to come back here? How could he explain that a part of him felt the need to return, to understand why Par-shon had risked so much as they attacked?

You have avoided me since the summons, Tan said. Asboel flicked his tail, and Tan pressed. Honl says they were bound to an elemental called kaas. It’s an elemental of fire, but one I’ve never heard of before.

The draasin snarled suddenly and fire steamed from his nostrils.

Tan stared, surprised. That was a more pronounced response than he’d expected.

That would not be, Asboel said. He stood on his hind legs, his nostrils flaring as he sniffed at the air.

Why? What is kaas?

He hadn’t heard of another

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