The Calling (Book 7 of The Blood & Brotherhood Saga) (The Blood and Brotherhood Saga) by Jeremy Laszlo

Author:Jeremy Laszlo [Laszlo, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-06-02T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Even with their blessings, Garret and Zorbin were having a harder time than they had previously presumed when trying to clear a path through the forest large enough to pass with their immense litters laden with mothers and pups. It was almost as if the forest itself was against their passing. Clearing trees and brush alike, they would find themselves at a steep impasse or a hole where a cave had collapsed beneath the soil. So frustrating were the random occurrences, that only five hours into day two Garret sat down the handles upon the litter he had built and cursed the thing from one end of Valdadore to the other. Ahead, a small swamp prevented them from passing in their blessed forms lest they risk sinking and becoming stuck in its depths. Once again, they would be forced to turn around and retrace their steps, choosing a new course.

If that were not enough, the disdainful looks from Ashton, Zorbin, and the many mothers he hauled, sent him into a line of apologies that he didn’t really mean. Who cared if he cursed in front of the pups? They weren’t really babies. Not like human ones anyway. They were abominations, spared their lives as a means to an end. Nothing more. Nothing less. It was easier, however, to placate his companions and the beast-ridden mothers. Better anyway than to hear them spew on about how he should do better in front of women and children and how it was inappropriate for a king to speak such a way. He was king, and could speak precisely however the hell he wanted.

Sighing loud enough that leaves actually separated from a branch a few feet from his enormous face, Garret turned back in the direction they had come, looking up the trail for an easy location at which they could change directions. Ahead, a grove of young trees they had circumvented looked like the easiest path. Climbing back up the hill, he watched as a wide blade slowly slid out from the top of his wrist. It was an odd thing to watch, but he couldn’t help himself but stare as it happened each and every time.

With his blade prepared, Garret hacked down the small trees while bolts of electrical energy lashed out, exploding the trunks of those beyond the ones he targeted. Down the trunks came as if they were little more than blades of grass, each of them toppling over as Garret shoved and pushed them to fall the way he desired. Looking past the now devastated copse of trees, he could see another fairly easy to navigate path that worked its way down hill towards the road just a few miles beyond. Looking northward, he wondered if Linaya was as anxious for him to return as he was. Already her voice threatened to fade from his mind, and her touch was but a ghostly memory. He needed to get back, and the sooner the better.

Returning to gather his litter

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