The Book of the Claw (Vesik 10) by Eric Asher

Author:Eric Asher [Asher, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Eric R. Asher
Published: 2019-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

“You fought one of those things before?” Splitlog asked.

Hugh nodded. “The three of us have, yes.”

“And you know how to defeat them?” Splitlog asked, a small edge of hope in his words.

“Yes,” Hugh said after a moment of hesitation.

“And have you ever defeated one?”

“Not on our own,” Alan said.

“Wonderful,” Splitlog grumbled. “What do you know about these things?”

“They have three beaks,” Hugh said. “Stay away from them, or you likely won’t heal from it.”

“Won’t heal?” Splitlog asked.

“Because you’ll be mulch,” Alan said.

Hugh rubbed his thumb over the head of the axe head on his belt. “We have better weapons for this encounter. You can attack the tentacles, you can even tear them off, but they will regenerate given enough hours, or days. You must kill it. Its only real weakness is its eyes.”

“And they’re damn hard to get to,” Alan said. “So you think if we can get you into the eye, that hatchet will do the rest?”

“It must.”

“How many eyes does it have?” Splitlog asked. “Should we approach multiple sides for the best chance of getting through?”

Hugh nodded. “But that’s not the best defense if we run into more Unseelie Fae. It would be better to stay together to fight off the Fae, but best to divide our forces to battle the leviathan. We face a risk either way.”

“I can kill the Unseelie on my own easier than all of us getting pancaked at once by the leviathan,” Haka said.

“I agree,” Hugh said. “But that doesn’t mean the Fae are less dangerous. The eyes are on either side of the beaks. Pierce them.”

Splitlog shook his head. “This is insane.” He hesitated and then said, “I’ll come from the South. Alan, you’re the fastest of all of us. Why don’t you go north and circle around to attack the leviathan from behind. Haka and Hugh, you can flank from the other sides.”

There were many alpha wolves who would’ve taken umbrage with Splitlog giving orders to members of their own pack. But Hugh had always been different in that regard. He was patient where most wolves were brash, and able to focus his anger where it would be most effective, like selecting a tool for the job it was best built for. Splitlog was an old war dog himself. A good mind for strategy, with knowledge of the local land, and someone Hugh trusted in full with his life and Haka’s.

Alan looked to Hugh, and Hugh only nodded as if silently giving him permission to do whatever Splitlog suggested.

The wolves didn’t need more instruction than that. Part of that was the pack bond, and part of that was being friends for so long. And even as Hugh thought of the pack bonds, his arm flooded with power, the nerves tingled where he could usually sense Damian, but it was different, darker, and a fiery kind of electricity.

The wolves separated, and Splitlog vanished into the tree line. Hugh stayed on the relatively clear path that would take him directly back to the stone cabin even as Haka and Alan sprinted to the north.

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