Wyrmrider Justice: An Underwater Magic Urban Fantasy (The Fomorian Wyrmriders Book 3) by Theophilus Monroe

Author:Theophilus Monroe [Monroe, Theophilus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-14T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

I DIDN'T LIKE leaving the ghost ships behind at all. Granted, we probably didn't stand much of a chance against them. But how could I be sure we'd find them again? Chances were better than not that they'd find us first. And then, not only would we still be outnumbered, we'd lose the element of surprise.

The only thing we gained by leaving, though, was probably the one thing we needed—a chance to figure out how the hell we were going to be able to take them out.

Cast them into the void. That was the first and most obvious option. Sure, that would work. But it wouldn't give me the chance to fulfill my side of the Baron's bargain. And even if all the wyrms could open gateways to the void—which wasn't true, in fact, since the younglings had shown no capacity to do so—there were so many ships that our chances of getting rid of all of them before they got to us were slim. Add to that the fact that a wyrm, to cast a portal to void, has to combine its natural portaling ability with Fomorian magic. They need more than a common Fomorian possess. The only way to cast that many portals, on a mass scale, would be to sacrifice the wyrmriders. It would take every last ounce of magic they had to do it, which would mean they'd die in the process. And even if we figured that out, I was the only one, apart from Enki and Cleo, who could see them. Every wyrm, except for Nammu, would be firing blindly in their efforts to throw void portals at the ships.

Then it dawned on me. "Why couldn't you all see the ships?"

"Because you have the Baron's aspect, duh," Tahlia said.

"It's not just that," I said. "The very first time we saw that ship, Agwe, you could see it. It was Ruach, in fact, who cast it into the void back when we were in the past."

"And we did see it later," Tahlia said. "When it came out of the void in the middle of our fight with Odette and Nephtalie."

I bit my lip. "These aren't just dead pirates. Sephus, one of my ancestors we met in the past, said that there were legends that said an enchantment of some kind bound the ghost pirates to their ship. Sure, they're dead. But in their case, what if it isn't just that they didn't move on when they died. What if there's some kind of magic binding them to their ships."

"A magic, perhaps, that Nephtalie is using likewise to bind the new ships they're taking and the souls aboard them into their armada."

"Exactly, Agwe," I said. "It's almost like you're finishing my sentences now."

"See," Agwe said. "You said it before. When we're facing some kind of world-threatening force, we're in sync."

I bit my lip. If our whole marriage was built on the foundation of conquering baddies and saving the world, it wasn't something we'd be able to maintain forever.

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