The Queen's Blade by D.K. Holmberg

Author:D.K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2024-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

The training continued much like this. Waleith guided me around the city, hoping that I would learn to find my own way, and I worked with him on different ways of mastering my connection to the magical resistance I possessed, along with hand-to-hand fighting skills. I did manage to improve my fighting technique in that time. It actually didn’t take that long, as Waleith proved to be a capable instructor on how to best wield a knife. Not only that, but he proved to be a willing instructor on magical techniques.

At one point, when we were working on the palace grounds, where he often liked to train, I paused. Prince Dorian was watching us and looking, or at least trying to look, as casual as possible. I didn’t care for his seeming interest in me and what I was doing here, but then again, there was nothing I could say about it.

“How often do you really think I’m going to face somebody with magical abilities?” I asked.

“You are a Blade,” Waleith said.

“And so far, you’ve made it clear that my responsibilities in the city mostly include just making sure that anybody who has any magic is dealt with. I’ll investigate—and work with Investigators—as I remove dangerous magics.”

“You do,” he agreed. “But you also carry a different purpose, and it is one that is essential for you to fully understand. There will be some who have dangerous magic, who you will need to disarm.”

He shrugged, holding his blade up again, this time prepared with a very different type of magic. He had something that carved through my resistance. I still hadn’t been able to figure out what it was, nor had I been able to identify how to disable it, but I had begun to recognize various aspects of the attack that might be useful to counter.

“Your skill is tied to all of that,” Waleith said.

I didn’t want to argue with him, but I also didn’t know how I felt about this. I was growing a bit frustrated by my lack of progress in handling the magical aspect of a fight. The hand-to-hand side was one thing, and apparently, I was decent, though I wasn’t shocked by that. I could fight with a sword, and I was big enough to grapple if it came down to that.

“Don’t worry, as we will ensure that you are fully prepared before you ever have the need to do anything like that.”

And so it went.

It was late in the afternoon when we came across an apparently abandoned home near a dingier and quieter section of the city. Waleith had guided me there, giving me an opportunity to focus on what I could feel, though I had not come up with the answer on my own.

“You called it an electrical sensation,” Waleith said. “Like a storm.”

I nodded. “That’s the way it feels,” I said.

“Are you feeling anything of that now?”

I stood before the home. The daylight had started to fade, though it had been a cloudy day, and there had not been all that much daylight to begin with.

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