Sorcerybound (World's First Wizard Book 2) by Aaron D. Schneider & Michael Anderle

Author:Aaron D. Schneider & Michael Anderle [Schneider, Aaron D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2020-10-20T22:00:00+00:00

The mist swallowed them, a strange, almost perverse amniotic experience.

The air was close and moist, and everything seemed to press in around them. Sounds, strange calls, and croaks that came from no animal humans had ever heard of echoed and warbled on the watery air. The weight of the trees bore down on them, and both were soon crouching under the subconscious pressure.

Ambrose’s gaze swept left and right, searching for a suitable spot to stage their ambush, but the deeper they went, the closer the trees seemed to be. Soon there was nothing to do but shuffle down the narrow path between looming trunks and drooping branches. Twice they stopped dead when something long and pale darted across the path, but each time neither could remember what they’d seen and despite several seconds’ pause, there was no sign of the creature returning.

After a few minutes, Milo was certain he’d made a terrible mistake suggesting they try to ambush their pursuers, and he almost asked Ambrose if they were lost and needed to retrace their steps. Then silvery light shone in front of them, and without a word between them, they both quickened their pace to escape the oppression of that arboreal corridor. Just before they burst from under the trees, Milo could have sworn that he could hear them creaking as though tightening around them.

They emerged in a small glade, where a series of six tall stones, three to a side, flanked a moss-speckled patch of flagstones. The rough-hewn obelisks were covered in thickly daubed and crudely depicted eyes marked with blinding slashes. In the moon-cast shadows of the stones, they saw bones through which grew thick vines.

Milo fought back a shiver.

“So,” Ambrose said, looking around the glade but avoiding the standing stones. “This will work better than anything else. I expect they’ll have to come the same way we did, which means that they’ll probably rush in here, either because they're on our trail or they just want to get out of the woods.”

Milo nodded, then looked back the way they’d come. The shadowed path was dark and narrow, certainly, but on this side, the terror they’d both felt could only be explained by the pervasive magic Milo felt coursing through the air. It was not just the tingling, but he most certainly felt something stirring around them, almost like a vast, sleepy presence yawning. Inside the tunnel of trees, they’d felt the weight of its half-awake stare, dull but terrible.

“Which means I’m going to be at their backs,” Ambrose explained, pointing at a shallow gap in the trees by the glade entrance. “This rifle seemed potent enough when the mercenaries were using them, so I should be able to drop a few of them. I expect when they turn around to return fire, you can step in. Figure you can roast a few of them, Magus?”

The question woke Milo out of his enraptured staring, and his brain scrambled to recollect what his ears had been hearing.

“Um, uh, yeah,” Milo said, trying to shake off the feeling of that huge presence bending low to squint at him.

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