Wrath of the Risen God: Arcane Renaissance Book Three by Tim Paulson

Author:Tim Paulson [Paulson, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ikkibu publishing
Published: 2020-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

"Cannons are God's drums and I am his composer."

-Ganex Artillery Commander Rupprecht Hegeler, 1614

With the weaselman and Giselle clasped carefully in Wen's goliath hands, Mia had him running to the west. They'd come out of the forest quickly and were currently traversing the rolling foothills that ran like uneven stairs from castle Aeyrdfeld and its surrounding city, down to the more open areas to the east used by the baron's goliath corps for training.

Mia knew these hills well. She'd spent many a day and night ranging with Zeus and the others of her unit, learning the terrain, imagining how the Ganex would come. If it hadn't been for the sight of the castle in flames, she might even have felt at home.

Not that Aeyrdfeld had ever really been her home. Or had it? She'd lived there a long time, even longer than she'd spent with master Benario. In spite of herself, she cared for the Haletts.

Baron Marcus Halett had always treated her well. He'd been a good man, and a good ruler as well. Now that she'd remembered the truth about him and his family it was even harder to banish him from her memory and move on.

Aaron too, whom she'd fought in his unfortunate stone state. She hoped very much it was possible to reverse what had been done to him. If only Harald hadn't left with Christine, perhaps he could have done it.

She couldn't forget Giselle, who'd been an exuberant toddler the first time Mia set eyes on her almost two decades ago. Mia had entered the hall to find the little girl running around and babbling like she'd swallowed a flock of geese, full of life even then. Currently, she was cupped in Wen's capable goliath hands, still upset, and she had every right to be.

Even Liam, Marcus's spitting image. The boy had always been rambunctious and physically talented, but also rash and arrogant, though heaven only knew where he'd gone after burning his mother's hidden sorcery room. He might never return.

A warm feeling came into her mind from her goliath. Wen let her know that he felt she'd been through a lot.

Mia smiled. She had, but for the first time in her life... she felt like she had a purpose. She would find Adem, firstly. She'd promised herself she'd take care of him, no matter what happened and she meant it.

Then she would try to bring the rest of them back together. It was worth doing, she felt it in her heart.

Wen agreed. Mia saw images of the older woman they'd buried in the forest. She'd been a goliath knight for twenty years, fighting furiously to maintain her position given she had no rich titled relatives to bolster her claim. There were three children waiting for her return back in her small knightdom in the northwest of Ganex.

Wen felt sad for her and her children but he also felt angry about what had been done to her, the attack, how it had come from nowhere.

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