Unleashed by Lukas Ritter

Author:Lukas Ritter [Ritter, Lukas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7869-5922-8
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Publishing
Published: 2011-06-14T00:00:00+00:00

Evin awoke to the sound of someone gasping in her sleep, tossing and turning and thrashing against the mattress above him. For a moment, Evin assumed it was Nevvy, consumed again with the just returned memories of her time in the dome.

Evin curled over in his bedroll. He and the other two boys had each taken a piece of the floor on the sides of the bed. The girls were allowed the softness of the mattress (for that night, at least). Leaning up on his shoulders, Evin peered over the edge of the bed and strained his eyes in the scant moonlight that seeped through the lone porthole in the room.

It wasn’t Nevvy who was restless at all. In fact she snored slightly, the honking tones almost in beat with the snapping sails and the whooshing of the waves and wind.

It was Bet.

The elf girl’s face looked younger in her sleep, innocent when it wasn’t briefly contorting into confusion or fear. Her head snapped back and forth against her pillow, tossing and tangling her long hair. Unintelligible words whimpered from between her lips.

Evin reached up and gently shook her arm. With a sharp intake of breath, Bet awoke. It took a moment of blinking her eyes before she looked down to see Evin had woken her.

“Is something wrong?” she asked in a whisper.

“No,” Evin whispered back. “You seemed to be having a nightmare.”

“Oh.” She rolled away from him, her lips pursed as she looked up at the unlit lamp swaying above the bed.

After a moment of silence, Evin said, “Sorry for waking you.”

“It’s all right,” she said. “I … Never mind.”

“What?”

Bet swallowed, then, to Evin’s surprise, climbed down off the bed to sit beside where he lay on the bedroll.

“Can I tell you something?” she asked. Her eyes were wide, vulnerable. Not a way she usually looked.

Evin nodded. “Sure.”

“I understand what you have been saying since the keep,” she said. “That not all monsters are monsters. Some are more like us, like human and elves, than others would give credit.”

“Like the medusas.”

“Yes, like the medusas.” Bet shook her head. “The woman, Sseratia, she wasn’t entirely wrong about the wizards behind this deserving some form of punishment.” Even in the darkness of the room, Evin could see her narrow her eyes as a familiar anger returned.

“But, Bet, Jorick and Geidan and Nevvy were right. Those sailors Sseratia killed, all those people from Kellachstan without a home … none of them deserved what happened to them. As much I don’t want to harm the medusa, we can’t let her form an army. That will just make matters worse.”

“I know,” Bet said. “I suppose what I’m saying is, perhaps we need to tread carefully with Sseratia. Treat her less like just another goblin or gnoll and more like we would any human foe, one whose thoughts involve more than savagery.”

“So you’re not happy with the plan, then?”

Bet shrugged. “Not entirely. I would prefer we bide our time and see how this plays out when we reach Medusa Island before taking any rash actions.

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