Unfit Magazine by Daniel Scott White

Author:Daniel Scott White [White, Daniel Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: humor, Magic, nymph, Horror, Fiction, mythology, trolls, Fantasy, General
ISBN: 9780998124384
Google: fRdFvgEACAAJ
Publisher: Longshot Press
Published: 2018-11-15T01:08:13+00:00

Part Three: The Spring of Truth

It would take days to reach the place in the mountains where the sacred spring was located, following the trail they’d decided to follow. Little did they know this wasn’t the shortest route. This was a long and weary route to traverse, walking being the only means of transportation in the New World at this time. There had been a breed of horse-type creature living here millions of years ago, but they’d all become extinct. It wasn’t until later, when the second kind of settlers came, that the mechanical horse was introduced to this environment, a kind of horse that polluted the atmosphere and destroyed the environment. The pollution they would eventually generate would cause all kinds of terrible mutations in a plethora of species when it came down to the next leap in evolution. The trail the warriors would take to the Spring of Truth was a hiking trail that only the strongest could master.

Bright and early the next morning, the warriors and the little man set out on foot, following a path that went on forever. In the lead were the seven warriors who’d first encountered Jon Tinweed playing in the woods, followed by the little man himself, and then, taking up the rear, his newfound friend, Samsuch. Overnight this warrior’s name had come to mean dances-with-fire-and-loses-his-eyebrows, as warrior’s names have a tendency to change over time due to unforeseen events.

The trees all around were turning brilliant colors and the smell of them perspiring lifted everyone’s spirits about the journey ahead. As Jon Tinweed climbed the trail up the mountainside, he walked with a bit of a wobble, being unfamiliar with the proper way to climb a mountain path. He’d never been so high above anything before. It made him dizzy, with the thinning atmosphere and the heights. They’d hardly climbed more than a hundred meets in elevation above sea level and already he was short of breath.

Because he walked with such a faltering gait, he slowed the whole procession down, but they never said a word about it. Silently, they loathed him, cursing the day they’d met him, which was only yesterday. They wandered slowly up the trial, dreaming of the moment when they might finally reach the Spring of Truth and throw him into it. Wouldn’t that be fine? Each warrior kept his fingers crossed, hoping the little man couldn’t swim. They were not far from the truth.

Samsuch was often verbally abused by the other members of his tribe, just as Jon Tinweed was insulted by the people he’d left behind in the Old World, and not having a heart made of metal like Jon Tinweed, Samsuch had retreated from society, becoming an introvert in nature, never caring much for what other people liked or didn’t like about him. Let’s just say his value system was a bit misaligned from that of the average woods-folk. Although he had a soft heart and was often crushed by the demeaning remarks dumped on him, he was a thinker of sorts, meaning he thought about things more than other people did.

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