War Mage (Crystals of Memory Book 4) by P.S. Power

Author:P.S. Power [Power, P.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Adventure, Magic
Publisher: Orange Cat Publishing
Published: 2021-01-07T20:00:00+00:00

Chapter eighteen

There was a feast that evening, which Anders didn’t attend. Honestly it hadn’t even occurred to him that anyone would expect him to be there. Farad tried to rally both of them, knowing that it was his own internal pressure that was driving them into the state of despair that they were in. Shaking himself a bit, which did nothing, Anders tried to find something to distract himself from his thoughts of war and murder.

That meant walking back to the shared house he was in, noticing that the outside of it had change, greatly, over the last few weeks. It had started out as a fairly nice, but outwardly plain, brown building, with a roof that matched. That was sloping, with tiles that had given them a good overhang on all sides, as if wearing an oversized hat.

Now it was a bright blue and green color, with swirled patterns on the exterior walls, and a black roof, which was the same in shape and form, but seemed to glisten, just a bit, in the warm afternoon light. Inside, the space was still open, but had some furniture in it now. Matching chairs, made of wood, a few large soft pieces, covered with pillows and hard wooden benches along the walls of the main room.

There was no fire in the fireplace, of course. Even in Yanse, the world had warmed enough that being cool each day was more important to see to than anything else, as far as comfort went. Inside, sitting off to the side, tying knots in a complicated pattern, was Hoatha.

His oldest friend, Ganges.

A person who had come halfway across the world to be with him, only to then be more or less ignored, in first the war and then due to Farad feeling poorly over the people that he’d killed. He tried to remind himself that it was needed. It didn’t truly help his mood.

Pretending to be pleased did, however.

“Hoatha! I’ve barely seen you over the last weeks. How is everything going?” He meant it, even if he had to fight to let that show through the surface level dourness that he’d been carrying with him.

For his old friend, he made the effort.

“Anders! I’ve been doing well. Watching everything and seeing where we might be of use in the area. Depak and Jeld did a wonderful job on the water and sewage systems in the city here, already. Food is food, but we ended the war at the beginning of the growing season, so other than managing the weather, we don’t have to do a lot that way. I’ve gone around doing some healing, with Princess Salina, just to work on her skills that way. In all, I don’t have much left to do here at all.” He smiled, happily enough to seem real. “Which is a good thing. You?”

Anders laughed a bit and rolled his eyes, merrily.

“Not nearly that much! Some light cooking, teaching a bit of magic. Saffron is already largely up on her Istlan.

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