Sorcery (Dragons & Magic Book 3) by Dave Higgins & Simon Cantan

Author:Dave Higgins & Simon Cantan [Higgins, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dave Higgins
Published: 2016-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Undead

Peony dropped to the ground, unable to take her eyes off the undead shuffling around. On closer inspection, there was a pattern to their wandering, as if they had a collective purpose. Zombies came over the far hill at random intervals and rambled across the valley; but as soon as they passed within arm’s reach of a rock, they picked it up and staggered back over the hill. Even more surprisingly, if the rock was too large for a zombie to lift, it waited until another zombie arrived and they carried it together. Apart from the stench of decaying flesh and inchoate moans, they were nothing like she’d expected. “What are they doing?”

“I was about to ask the same.” Rauger rose to a crouch. “Come on. We’ve more chance of sneaking around a bunch of mindless zombies than those giants. We’ll travel south for a while, then go east.”

She nodded carefully. The giants were more of a threat, but didn’t smell nauseous. Before following Rauger, she turned and gave Gus a hug. “We’ll be back with magical help, just as soon as we return to my kingdom.”

Gus patted her on the back, sending her staggering forward a step. “I hope you will. I won’t survive long without my tribe. We giants are social creatures.”

“See you soon.” She waved goodbye and turned to follow Rauger.

Rauger crept down the far side of the hill, his gaze sweeping across the zombies.

Peony knew little about zombies—other than the one lecture Edmond had got her to sit still for. They bit humans, turning the humans into zombies; who then bit more humans. They were also mindless and slow, which made her wonder why anyone was ever be caught by them. How did zombies track their prey? Did they have better hearing or smell than humans? With hundreds of them wandering the countryside, avoiding them didn’t seem so easy.

Once off the hill, Rauger kept to lower-lying areas. There weren’t many trees, so they had to crouch behind bushes. They never got within a hundred paces of the zombies. However, every rustle of breeze through leaves made Peony’s heart race. They reached the far side of the valley without incident, but the itch between her shoulders got worse by the moment.

Letting out a brief gasp, Rauger dropped flat at the top of the hill. When Peony joined him, she had to gasp too. An immense castle rose in the centre of the valley. Hundreds of zombies swarmed across the valley floor in all directions, either carrying rocks to the castle or heading out to fetch more. More zombies clambered over the immense fortress, shuffling along rough scaffolding to add rocks to the top of the walls.

A zombie on the nearest wall stumbled and plunged off the scaffolding, splatting into a pile of bones and torn flesh, unable to rise again. Without missing a beat, a nearby zombie picked up the fallen rock and climbed the scaffolding.

“Why are they doing that?” Peony asked. “I thought zombies were meant to be stupid.

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