The Bander Adventures Box Set 2 by Randy Nargi

Author:Randy Nargi [Nargi, Randy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bogwood Press
Published: 2019-04-26T22:00:00+00:00

Over the past 30 years there had been many occasions when Bander had regretted not getting trained as a tracker. This was one of them.

He was able to follow the trail well enough. With all the broken branches, flattened foliage, and drops of blood, a half-blind beggar could have done that. He even determined that at least one man and one horse had passed along this path since he could make out both boot prints and hoofprints.

What Bander couldn’t ascertain was exactly how many men he was chasing, and how much of a lead they had.

Both pieces of information would have been welcome.

No matter how far ahead the men were, Bander knew he had to move quickly. But he also knew that he had to move quietly. He wasn’t inclined to walk willingly into an ambush. Even with a Valer steed by his side.

In the end, he got lucky.

The horse heard the men first.

His ears swiveled toward a sound that Bander couldn’t hear and the animal froze.

A moment later Bander strained his ears and heard faint voices, the sound carried by the breeze.

This would be tricky. There were a lot of unknowns. How many men were up ahead? In what condition were they? How were they armed?

The trail wound up along a slight rise. As he drew closer, Bander got a better sense of the voices. There were at least three. Male. And they were arguing loudly.

The steed must have sensed the tone of the conversation because his ears pinned back and he started to pull towards the sound.

“Easy, easy. Just follow my lead, if you will,” Bander whispered to the horse.

Because he was in the company of a 2500 pound animal, Bander knew that a stealthy approach just wasn’t an option. He would have to just hope that these men didn’t have crossbows at the ready.

Bander strode confidently into the clearing at the top of the rise.

“Anyone lose a stallion?”

He saw a horse tied to a tree and four men. One of the men looked close to dead—slumped on the ground and too injured to move. Next to him another man sat on a rock eating an apple and arguing with a second who was binding the wounds of a third man. These latter three were caked in dirt and dressed like the man back at the campsite with the crushed chest.

It didn’t take Bander more than a moment to piece together the puzzle: three bandits and their captive.

For their part, the men didn’t waste any time in discussion. They grabbed for short swords and cudgels and sprang to their feet.

But Bander was already moving. He dropped the steed’s reins and exploded forward, which put him within kicking range of the man with the apple. No way to get a clean kick to the man’s lower body, so he settled for a quick sweep that knocked the bandit off balance. As the man stumbled, his blade flew from his grasp. Bander shuffled to the right and smashed his elbow into the bandit’s face, right between the eyes.

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