The Forgotten Tribe by Stephen J Wolf

Author:Stephen J Wolf [Wolf, Stephen J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780996984676
Publisher: Stephen J. Wolf
Published: 2016-06-21T22:00:00+00:00

Flying on a horse

Speeding like a bird

He couldn’t take a breath

Couldn’t speak a word.

“Sorry, one of the heirs died because he was born with weak lungs and he always had trouble breathing. He would have these fits where he couldn’t take in any air and he would gasp and gasp until he could calm himself down. Well, his advisors stepped in and smothered him, preventing him from going out and being active. They wanted to ensure he had an heir of his own first, but he rebelled and he escaped one afternoon on horseback. In the excitement, he had one of his breathing attacks and he suffocated from it.”

“That’s awful.” Dariak’s lip then twitched into an odd grin. “Was that verse in the book or are you crafting a song about these heirs?”

“The latter,” he admitted. “It is an interesting collection of stories that are all uniquely linked together. Delminor singled them out because they were royalty, but when I was reading through it, I felt like the stories were more important than just that.”

Dariak agreed, “There must be a reason he focused on them for two volumes. What else was there?”

“A rockslide,” Randler answer succinctly. “Another climber had a bad accident there. Someone else, younger, was mired in quicksand and wasn’t able to free himself. There was also a king that liked to hunt, but he was eviscerated by his prey. Delminor was unfortunately descriptive there,” he shuddered involuntarily. The bard bit his lip, thinking of the other stories that were mentioned in Delminor’s books. “There was one that seemed very unlikely to me.”

“Oh?”

“One young boy was terrified of the dark. He had to have torches lit at all times otherwise he would panic, even if the moon was bright that night. The healers said they couldn’t calm him down with any kind of remedy. They just needed to keep a light on. As the years went by, he dealt with the fear more and more, but he was still frightened by it. One day, he was on the road with an escort and they were ambushed by bandits. The kid was taken captive and held prisoner. Apparently, they kept him locked away in a dark cell underground with no light at all. He inexplicably died, and Delminor insisted he died of fright.”

“Being in a cell is certainly scary enough without an added fear compounding it,” Dariak noted.

“True, but being so afraid that your body just… dies?”

Dariak shrugged. “Think about some of the scuffles we’ve been in. The heart beats fast and you run out of breath. Maybe he worked himself up into a real frenzy and his body couldn’t cope.”

“That’s about what your father said.”

“I guess he and I sometimes think alike,” the mage said. “What else?”

“Well, the last two stories were very dramatic and I had no idea what was going to happen while I read them. It’s been a while since another person’s tale caught me by such surprise. In the first, the prince was minding

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