The Unlikeable Demon Hunter: Crave by Deborah Wilde

Author:Deborah Wilde
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Romance, Urban Fantasy
ISBN: 9781988681115
Publisher: Te Da Media
Published: 2018-02-20T05:00:00+00:00

12

Mom was teaching, so I drove over to UBC to catch the end of her class. I slipped into the back of the lecture hall. It was summer semester and this was a third-year history class, so there were few enough students that she noticed my entrance.

She was wearing the green shirt. This weird glowy feeling warmed my chest. Idiot. It was a shirt. It was clean. She didn’t know I’d be here today and it had nothing to do with me. Especially since Mom didn’t even pause speaking when I came in, her eyes glancing off me from her position at her lectern to the student in the front row who’d raised her hand.

“Can you elaborate on what you meant by ‘David was not the underdog of legend?’” the student asked.

“Underdog implies that the odds are stacked against the person because they haven’t the skill or experience.” Mom had devoted her academic career to becoming the foremost expert on King David. She’d told Ari and I that originally she’d planned to focus on the Roman rule of Judea back in the fifties B.C.E., but after Ari’s destiny was revealed, she’d switched her attention to the man who’d founded the Brotherhood.

Even her professional choices were centered around Ari.

I pried my fingers off of my purse and smoothed out my expression. Mom was watching me.

“David was unwilling to follow the rules of honorable conduct that Goliath expected,” she said. “He brought a projectile to the fight instead of engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Even King Saul expected the single combat method, as evidenced by him attempting to dress David in his own armor.”

“David played dirty,” the student said.

“David played to win.” Mom adjusted the glasses she wore to clearly see students at the back of the room. I forced myself to remain relaxed. “Hitting Goliath with that slingshot wasn’t luck. David was a precise slinger. It was how he’d fought off wild animals as a shepherd. Armor was also heavy, so David kept speed and agility on his side by refusing to wear any. Then there’s the fact that Goliath requested that David come to him. Why? Goliath was a seasoned warrior. A giant of a man. He wouldn’t have been scared of David. It’s now believed that he suffered from acromegaly.” She wrote the word on the board behind her.

“Like André the Giant,” another student said.

“Yes,” Mom said. “Acromegaly causes an overproduction of the growth hormone. That comes with a host of medical problems including vision difficulties.” Mom stepped out from behind the lectern. “Why wasn’t he an underdog?” She ticked the reason off on her fingers. “David was not lacking experience, nor did he only have a slim chance. Instead, he assessed the facts in a way that no one else had. Everyone else had read the situation differently, dependent on their understanding of how things had always been resolved. David had his own unique lens on events. He did what had to be done to win. It’s to be admired, not sold short as merely luck.

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