The Thunder King (Bell Mountain) by Lee Duigon

Author:Lee Duigon [Duigon, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Chalcedon Foundation/Store House Press
Published: 2012-08-08T07:00:00+00:00

In Gilmy the townspeople lent Martis and the children a house whose rightful owners had fled into the west. To Jack it seemed as good as, and maybe a little better than, Van’s house, where he lived in Ninneburky. To Ellayne it seemed not much better than a tool shed. Martis went to work with the town’s men, digging a moat around the town. When it was finished, they would be able to fill it almost instantly with water from the river.

“Remember,” Martis cautioned the children, “not a word about who we are or what we’ve done! The Temple’s spies are everywhere, and Lord Reesh has not forgotten you. I’m just a humble refugee from the hill country, and you’re my grandsons.” He kept Ellayne’s hair cut short to disguise her as a boy, and called her Layne.

That first day he went off to work and left them alone was tedious, and the second even more so. Most of the children in the town had been evacuated, and there was nothing much to see or do.

“If we stay here for the rest of the summer, I’ll go crazy,” Ellayne said. “After all we’ve done, you’d think we deserved better.”

“Well, we don’t have anything more to do,” Jack said. “It was my dreams that sent us to Bell Mountain, and the little girl who sent us to Obann for the scrolls. I guess we’ve done everything God wanted us to do.”

“So we just do nothing for the rest of our lives?”

Jack shrugged. “Life is not a storybook,” he said. “People don’t just go around having one adventure after another. I bet most people never have any adventures at all.”

“I’d still rather be with Obst,” Ellayne said. “I want to see what happens! Staying here would be like being in a story and then getting dropped out of it before it’s over.

“And what about poor Wytt? Do you think he likes having to hang around inside this hut all day? Have you thought about him?”

Well, no, Jack hadn’t. Actually Wytt stole out at night and had his own adventures, whatever they might be. Of course there were none of the little hairy people living in Gilmy, inhabited as it was by human beings. But Wytt hadn’t complained.

“What we ought to do,” Ellayne said, “is sneak out of here while Martis is at work and see if we can find the army. I don’t think they’ll send us back, once they realize we’ve made up our minds to stay with them.”

“The army’s on the other side of the river, pea-brain.”

“So? It’s going to Obann, isn’t it? Sooner or later they’ll have to cross to this side. They might’ve even done that already.”

Jack didn’t know how to explain why he didn’t want to chase the army, after Helki had ordered them to stay in Gilmy. He’d already run away from home, and Gilmy wasn’t home. It wasn’t because he was afraid of making Helki angry, or Obst. There was something about the idea that didn’t feel right.

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