Shadow of the Ghost Bear (The Tale of Azaran Book 2) by Arbela Zackery
Author:Arbela, Zackery [Arbela, Zackery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-18T18:30:00+00:00
Chapter Seven
Eralai and the tribal elders emerged from the house. But the arguments persisted.
"Hear me!" shouted Nebaro, raising his hands high above his head. He bellowed at the top of his lungs, yet barely rose above the sound of the crowd. "The Eburrean King comes to our forest. But he does not know the forest as we do! We shall make his passage a march of death and lay his bones before the Green Ancestor!"
"Liar!" shouted a woman at the front of the crowd. She was taller than the others, her black hair streaked with gray. "You will march our sons to their deaths! We must flee into the deep wood, where their warriors cannot follow!"
"You would have us flee in dishonor?" Nebaro shouted back, his coppery skin darkening with rage. "Flee like rabbits before a stray dog? Leave the work of warriors to the men and stick to your pots!"
"If you men did your work, we wouldn't be in this mess!" the woman shouted back. "Anyway, I see no man, but a little boy about to soil himself!"
Nebaro reddened even more and shouted something back, but it was lost in the general uproar that followed. Eralai tried to be heard above the din, to no avail.
Azaran saw one of the warriors from his lodging's nearly. "Who is that?" he asked, jutting his chin at the woman facing off against Nebaro. From the way she was going, their disagreement was an old one.
"Her?" said the warrior. "That is Nebaro's mother."
"His mother?"
"No one else would speak to him thus."
"She seems...loud."
"That's one way to describe it," said the warrior with a laugh. "They argue about everything. Yet he still lives in her house."
Azaran shook his head in disbelief. He looked back towards the door to Eralai's house, where Nebaro was shouting at his mother, she was shouting back, the elders were shouting at each other and the mob shouting at everyone and itself.
Azaran turned to his left and saw a knot of Eburreans standing apart from the Iturai, locked deep in their own arguments. Segovac gesticulated wildly before Gwindec, who shook his head in violent disagreement. Azaran sighed and walked over in case it turned violent.
"Mad!" Segovac was saying, his usual air of Rhennari calm gone. "You would throw away your lives on a foolish gesture!"
"To die with honor is not the work of a fool!" Gwindec retorted. "And better we die on our feet than wait for the Ghenenai to gut us!"
"Do not do this, Gwindec! You are the only voice to speak out against your uncle. This is your chance to strike! Ganascorec is weak, all it will take is one blow in the right place..."
"With what army, Segovac Rhennari? He's coming here with twenty men for every one I have. And the Iturai won't stand against him, not on my account!"
"So you'll throw your life away?"
"I'm tired of running," Gwindec said. "My men are tired of running. If Ganascorec is coming for us, then I'll make him pay such
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