The Warrior Returns by Allan Cole

Author:Allan Cole [Cole, Allan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780345413123
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 1997-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Kingdom of Dreams

fire gouted. thunder crashed. Smoke tornadoes roared on every side. The air was a demon's fetid breath, stinking of corpses and burning flesh. All color had collapsed into garish hues of red and black.

The wails of lost souls were dark tides of pity sucking us deeper into Novari's machine.

The conveyor was sweeping us toward a flaming whirlpool of power. Screaming and flailing around it were hundreds of spirit slaves. They were chained to the grated floor with sorcerous links which they tore at with bleeding nails.

I saw Searbe among them, heard his tortured screams, saw flames char flesh and bone which became whole again for misery's next roundelay.

Above it all was the song of the Lyre Bird. But the strings did not sing of promised pleasures and seductive dreams. The music was a mad dissonance of notes forming and shattering and reforming into shrills of greater and greater intensity.

The souls all writhed and danced in time to that mad music, their agony feeding the whirlpool of fire.

Ahead I saw a stack of gold rods carried through the whirlpool. Sparks exploded in every direction. On the other side of the whirlpool I saw the conveyor emerge again, the trough glittering with a fine layer of Novari's magical dust.

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