The Blood Run by Marie Cambell

Author:Marie Cambell [Cambell, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-11-11T05:00:00+00:00

No sooner had sleep claimed me did I jerk awake to chaos. A knife pierced the thick, metal lining of my tent. I heard Kai shouting along with a bunch of other voices and howls.

Again, and again, blades stabbed through the material with a horrid screeching sound. Alvy shook and hissed in the far corner. I scooped up his body in one arm and used the other to pull my blade from its holster.

In one clean cut, I sliced through the flap and leapt through it, curling my body so I rolled against the stone and rose to my feet.

I barely had a snap to take in the mania of what was taking place outside when a man in tattered clothes barreled into me. A familiar screeching rent the air, coming from the guy’s elongated mouth. His skin was far too dark to be that of a Scottomb, and his head wasn’t quite as oblong as it should have been, yet he clawed at my body with too-sharp nails. Jaws with razor sharp teeth snapped for my neck before I jammed my blade into the man’s temple.

The thrust sent him tumbling off me, though he writhed and choked.

I bent down to retrieve my blade when I heard the whispered words coming from the man’s mouth. “Must… destroy… the mines.”

My skin went colder than the icy wind that buffeted my body. I didn’t have time to stop and ponder his words though. Yanking my blade free with a sickening sound I’d never get used to, I scanned the melee.

Arlakai blasted through three men with his echo bolt before whirling on his heel and landing a swinging kick to another guy’s jaw.

It didn’t knock the now-groaning man out, however, and I sprinted for him. Just as I got close enough to strike, the man howled an animalistic cry, eyes crazed and milky. He swung claws in my direction, snarling incoherent words.

I backed away, hesitating for the first time to kill a monster. Something like humanity flashed across his face before his features twisted into rage once again.

“Ferrah, kill it!” Arlakai screamed.

“Yes,” the man rasped, shuffling to its feet again. Then it charged.

I let my indecision go as my survival instincts kicked in. My blade left my hand, meeting its mark, sinking through the man’s throat. He made a gurgling sound, dark blood bubbling from his mouth and oozing down his chin.

His hands wrapped around the hilt of the blade before he pulled it free. When he collapsed, I lunged for the blade, picking it up just in time for someone to swipe at me. The whisper of sharp metal played through a loose lock of my hair, severing it.

I rolled, sending my blade sailing again and wishing I’d grabbed the other two from my bag before coming out here. It hit the man in the chest, but it didn’t so much as slow him. He had two longer blades that he crisscrossed in front of my face.

Driving my knee up, I dislodged one knife from his hand, catching it before it hit the ground.

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