A Warrior's Path by Davis Ashura

Author:Davis Ashura [Ashura, Davis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Indie Author Project
Published: 2015-01-21T05:00:00+00:00

Those who choose the twilight existence of the Sil Lor Kum are fools. But pity their children. What misery to be raised by such jackals!

~The Sorrows of Hume, AF 1789

Silence fell in the pub before shouted questions were thrown at the young man, who struggled to answer them. He didn’t know much more than what he’d already said.

Nanna turned to Jaresh. “Find Mira. We’ll meet you in my study in a few hours,” he said. “We need to discuss our plans.”

“What about you?” Jaresh asked.

“Bree and I will go to where the body was found,” Nanna answered. “And make sure your mother and Sophy are there also,” he added a moment later. “It’s time we informed them about this.”

The three of them quickly left the bar, with Jaresh heading toward the House Seat, while Bree and their nanna went east along Scythe Cut toward Fragrance Wall to where the body had been found. Nanna wanted to personally examine the area, hoping to learn something more of the killer they hunted. Perhaps there was a clue, something others might have overlooked. It was a reasonable expectation, especially since the Watch had apparently not yet recognized that the murderer was likely a Kumma.

Bree followed silently in her nanna’s wake, but her mind was in turmoil. It had been a day of upheaval. So many ugly truths had come to light, and so many falsehoods had been revealed. She struggled to make sense of it all. For instance, who was she now? She was a Shektan and a Kumma. That much was still true, but was she still an upright woman? She feared she was not. Despite Nanna’s forceful assurance, she remained disturbed by a single question, one she could not answer: could grace and honesty rise from the wretched foundations laid by Kul’El Shektan?

Nanna said people made their own honor, and Bree understood what he meant, at least from a logical perspective, but understanding wasn’t the same as believing. Nanna’s words were sophistry, a way to wash clean the sins of the past without actually confronting them. For instance, should a ghrina ever reach adulthood and procreate, the original sin of its birth would still be passed on to all of its progeny, no matter how many generations had passed. The ghrina’s stain could never be expunged. And if such things were true on an individual level, how could it not be the same for a House? No matter all the good works done later, if a House was born in sin, would it not carry the mark of such dishonor for the entirety of its existence?

The past determined the present, or so the philosophers opined.

All her life, Bree had been so proud to be a Shektan, part of a rising power, a House of morality, led by a man of goodness and decency. And now this…it was a heartache she wasn’t sure she could ever come to terms with.

And she had no one with whom to confide. Who could she tell?

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