The Witch Named Heretic: Second Book of the EmberEarth Chronicles by Matthew Bunch

Author:Matthew Bunch [Bunch, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Magical Realism
ISBN: 9781976793318
Google: OoXotAEACAAJ
Amazon: 1976793319
Publisher: Independently published
Published: 2018-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Gunter sniffed the wind, detecting more dead. He chose a long path taking him down wind and then cut across to the source of the smell. This close, the air held an acrid stench which burned his sensitive nostrils. He rapidly shook his wrists and ankles in the way which exposed his climbing claws. He leapt at the trunk of the nearby tree and raced up the soft wood as quickly as running. Among the branches he moved even faster. A moment later he looked down on the camp from thirty feet above. Dark-skinned bodies littered the forest floor.

Talgud Tamun. He played fretfully with a cuticle. This is bad.

A circle of blackened foliage told him magic had killed these men. Compressed leaves and vines showed where the tent sat and markings in the brush told him everything had been packed away neatly. Someone had departed in an organized way.

Easy to see who won this fight.

He dropped from branch to branch and then landed in the middle of camp. He shook his wrists and ankles again to retract his claws.

He rolled a body over. One rarely survives a Tamun raiding party.

A Valese, a tiger, and two girls against Tamun?

Closer examination showed him how poorly the fight went until the spell abruptly ended the battle.

The Valese seriously wounded, one of the girls near death. They rested for days, healing. I’m only a day behind now.

He spent the next hour studying the tracks in the forest floor until he saw in his mind exactly what happened. A cold chill tickled his spine.

I’m tracking two Witches, not one.

He had a meal and briefly napped in the highest branches to make his final push well rested. From here on, he would travel only through the treetops.

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