The Tyranny of Faith by Richard Swan

Author:Richard Swan [SWAN, RICHARD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2023-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

On the second day, we came across the Imperial wayfort at Kamaria, a large castle which formed the northernmost point of the chain of warning beacons from Kormondolt Bay. Once, this fortress had been home to a garrison of a thousand Legionaries; now a hundred auxiliaries existed in the barracks, and much of the castle’s halls and chambers were empty and going to ruin. Still, the master gave us what provisions he could spare and refilled our water skins.

An hour later we came across the first of the beacons. It was a large iron brazier set atop a sturdy stone tower thirty feet high, though the latter was half hidden by lichen and climbing plants. At the base of the tower was a small stable, and two horses idly cropped the grass nearby. The two soldiers who manned the station came out and greeted us in pidgin Saxan, and I watched from the back of our caravan as they exchanged words with Vonvalt and Captain Galla. In the distance, perhaps ten miles away across the plain, I could see the next beacon, and just make out the beacon beyond that on the horizon. Our journey was now simply a case of following them to the coast.

I felt a strange and haunting sense of isolation, standing there next to the beacon. I turned and looked back to the wayfort, and half expected to see a dim black figure of the Muphraab walking slowly in our wake.

But of course there was nothing.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.