Towns and Towers: A New Land by Shawn Kass

Author:Shawn Kass [Kass, Shawn]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Rushing over as soon as the yeti fell, Anna asked, “Are you all right?”

With a nod, Sam answered, “Yeah.”

“I…I’m sorry,” began Anna after a false start, and then bowing her head, she quietly added, “I should have helped. I should have done something. I was just, I don’t know. I was like paralyzed.”

Having seen characters in other games suffer from fearinduced paralysis, Sam knew there was little she could have done. Somewhere between the bandits capturing them, threatening both her life as well as the city, and the yeti coming out, she had lost her wits. To tell the truth, pretty much anyone who had faced even half of these things in the real world would crumble. Accepting her apology, Sam said, “It’s okay. I get it. Let’s just get our stuff and get out of here. Peter is still waiting on us.”

Bringing a hand to her mouth, Anna said, “Oh, that’s right, Peter. We still need to get that flower.”

Suddenly, the sound of a boot scuff came from somewhere behind them, followed quickly by a gasp. Whether the gasp was from the surprise at finding Sam and Anna standing next to the dead yeti or at the swirling ball of fire which Sam had quickly generated in the palm of his outstretched hand, neither of them knew, but a bandit stepped out of the cave entrance with his hands up in the air.

Not in the mood to deal with any more nonsense, Sam released the fireball a few feet in front of the bandit, forcing him to stop in his tracks and announced, “If you’ve come back to finish what you started or to steal our stuff, you should have brought more men.”

“N…n…no, I, um, I came back for her,” said the bandit as he gestured towards Anna with his chin. “I didn’t want anything to happen to her.”

Sarcastically, Sam said, “That’s funny, because I could swear before this walking carpet showed up, you were all cheering at the idea of throwing us over the edge.”

Shaking his head, the bandit stuttered, “W, w, we were, but we didn’t want it to happen. I, I, I mean, it was Jeva’s idea to scare you two, n, n, not ours. W, w, we were just going along with him, see?”

Glaring, Sam asked, “Just going along with someone who plans to murder people? Are you stupid?”

“N, n, no. He wasn’t really going to hurt you. He was our leader. He saved us.”

“Saved you? How?” asked Anna.

“W, w, we are from Cloverdale. We were part of the military there, but General Ranith gave us an order we couldn’t comply with. He wanted us to invade the town of Elmswood. Captain Jeva refused and that night told us he planned to become a deserter. A few guys from the platoon stayed behind, but the rest of us left with him.”

In an angry tone, Sam asked, “So you went AWOL to protect your morals, and now you’re kidnapping people and threatening them? How does that work?”

Disgraced, the man shook his head and explained, “It didn’t start out that way.

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