The Shattered Path (The Cycle of Galand Book 9) by Edward W. Robertson

Author:Edward W. Robertson [Robertson, Edward W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barden Publishing
Published: 2024-05-14T00:00:00+00:00

15

Blays stared at him in perfect blankness. "My wife?" he said. "They took Minn?"

"They did," Dante said. "And several hundred others."

"But you're sure she's still alive."

"She was when she was taken. Nak assured me of that. None of us can know what's happened since then."

"Since then? Just how long ago did this happen?"

"Not thirty minutes ago. Nak looned me as soon as it was safe to, then I ran here."

Blays' voice was steady enough, but his face was as red as Nolost's lightning. While his hands appeared to be resting lightly on the hilts of his swords, his knuckles were so white he looked ready to snap off the pommels.

"I'm leaving," he said. "Within the hour."

"Are you insane?" Dante said. "There's nothing we can do about it here. Nak is already mustering a team to recapture the prisoners."

"Nak's not enough. He's up against an angel of Arawn." Blays turned and strode back toward the settlement. "Elea, tell me you people have horses. I need two of them. The fastest you've got."

The others fell in behind him as if swept along in his wake.

"Blays, this won't help anything," Dante said. "You won't even be able to make it back through Quenos without the nether."

"Then I'll just have to slit Quenari throats until they kick me out."

"Even if you get them to send you back to Calsia, it would take you months to reach the Norren Territories."

"With two good horses, it'll be a lot faster than that."

Dante ducked under a branch. "You'll never get two horses over the mountains and through the tunnels. But that's not even the point. Horses or no horses, Moraiya will still have all the time she needs to…" He trailed off.

Blays spun on him, wet leaves squelching under his heel. "What the hell do you care what I do? You think we're all plummeting into an actual hell and that we've destroyed any way to stop it from happening. How is running off to save my wife from monsters any dumber than whatever you were doing all day?"

"You're the one who thinks we can still make a difference. If that's true, why throw it away on a totally hopeless mission?"

"Because she's my wife, you idiot! Elea, do your people have horses or not?"

"Yes," she said. "But we're not going to just give them to you if you're abandoning—"

"You can give them to me, and be mad about it, or I can take them from you, and you will feel nothing about it, because I'll have dispatched you to the afterlife. This is not a joke."

She glared at Blays' back. "I was right about you all. You're not saviors. You bring nothing but ruin."

"Come on, we both know I was never going to be able to learn the Weave. If I leave, you won't be missing out on anything. Except your horses."

He jogged onward. A dull pain beat in Dante's head. He was frustrated enough to tackle Blays from behind, it was the only thing left he could think to do, but he knew Blays would just flip him over and pin him down.

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