The Green Sea by Weitze Torsten

Author:Weitze, Torsten
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

‘You treated her like a sack of flour,’ scolded Jelninolan, glaring at the Arch Wizard as Ahren finally reached the encampment. ‘Worse. One doesn’t throw flour around the place like a rotten windfall apple.’

‘I saved her life,’ muttered Uldini, managing to sound furious despite his clearly exhausted condition. ‘There was no time for niceties.’

‘It seems that you never have time for niceties,’ snarled the elf, leaning over Khara again, who was lying unconscious on the ground.

Ahren pressed the reins of his horse into the hands of an Ice Wolf before hurrying to his beloved. ‘How is she?’ he asked.

‘Poorly but alive,’ said Jelninolan, glancing angrily at Uldini, who was already nodding off. ‘Half the bones in her body are broken. I will have to knit them together by means of a curative sleep despite my own exhaustion.’

Ahren saw beads of sweat appearing on the elf’s forehead as she allowed the power of her True Form to flash into life, causing the surrounding area to be cast in a cold, white light. The Clanspeople gasped in awe, with many of them placing three fingers on their chests in an act of reverence. Ahren looked at Khara’s pale face, which seemed completely undamaged, with only a little smudge of dirt on her left cheek. Her tunic mercifully hid the young woman’s broken bones from view, although he could make out at least six suspicious-looking bulges on her arms, legs, and trunk.

Jelninolan glared angrily once more at Uldini, then sank down beside the injured woman, took Khara in her arms, and rested the back of the unconscious warrior against her chest. ‘This is going to take days,’ she muttered. ‘Don’t wake us, and please ensure that when she does come around, she is in one piece again.’ Then the elf hummed a little melody, and her head fell against Khara’s right shoulder. Ahren could see that the breathing of the two sleepers was now in harmony and understood that they were now united through the Elven magic that would ultimately help Khara in her healing.

‘Good idea,’ yawned Uldini, his eyes half-closed as he rolled unceremoniously beside the two women and fell asleep. Two heartbeats later, he was snoring quietly.

‘Wizards, eh?’ grunted Falk, looking down at the sleeping figures in the middle of the quietening encampment. ‘You have to love them.’

‘Some of them, anyway,’ responded Trogadon, who was gently moving Jelninolan and Khara from their sitting position and stretching them out on the ground. Muai came bounding in from the darkness beyond, her chest heaving like a bellows, her whiskers shivering with anxiety. Then she miaowed quietly and rolled up in a ball at Khara’s feet, threatening everyone that came too close with a hostile look, apart from Trogadon and Ahren.

‘We are going to need a stretcher of some sort,’ said Lanlion, exhibiting his practical bent in the silence of the night.

‘We have a large one,’ replied Sings-in-Saddle, who had stepped in unnoticed and was now keenly examining the sleeping Swordswoman. ‘We will hang it between two powerful horses who know the procedure and are used to trotting along in unison.

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