Albion's Legacy (Sons Of Camelot Book 3) by Luddington Sarah

Author:Luddington, Sarah [Luddington, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Mirador Publishing
Published: 2016-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

I gently coaxed Sherriff after the small creature and we continued on into the forest. The trees cut out much of the light so spotting signs of Galahad’s passing would be hard work but I could discern at least a little damage to the virgin woodland. We didn’t go far, perhaps five hundred paces, before I noticed the light shifting intensity before us.

The small fey stopped in her tracks and pointed. “In there.” Her finger trembled.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“Nothing,” she said, lying through her small sharp teeth.

I crouched to her height and looked into her large green eyes. “What’s wrong, little one?”

She glanced over her shoulder and shuddered, walking toward me. Sherriff balked at having her so close but I held him firm and the fey creature came so close I could smell her. A scent of loam and bitter sap. She leaned toward me and whispered in my ear.

“There be monsters in there,” she whispered and she clutched the front of my gambeson.

“I have to find Galahad,” I said. “What kind of monsters?”

She heaved a breath in and released it loudly. “The kind that kill you, idiot.”

I tried not to smile. This was clearly dangerous but her wide-eyed concern made it impossible to be fearful. I continued to walk forward with Sherriff, unwilling to leave him alone with the fey and I drew my sword. The light grew brighter indicating a large clearing in the forest and I moved quietly, finally releasing Sherriff to move on his own if he wished.

The trees and brush thinned sufficiently for me to see into the clearing and it wasn’t monsters I saw. The area looked as if a huge lightning bolt had smashed into the ground and a flash furnace had wiped out the trees in a perfect circle. I dragged my eyes from the figure in the centre of the blast range to check for enemies or monsters. I’d be no use to Galahad dead.

I couldn’t see anything remiss beyond the hole in the forest.

“I told you, monsters,” hissed the fey from above me. The creature hung from a branch over my head between me and the blast range, she was upside down and twisting.

“I must be missing something, I can’t see a thing,” I said.

She hissed at me for being stupid. “The fire! The fire killing us.”

The trees were dead because of the blast that was her monster. “It’s fine, there’s nothing in there that can hurt me.” I was already walking toward the figure in the middle of the circle. The ground felt hot through my boot soles and uneven.

“Galahad?” I called out. The circle was twenty paces to the centre. Impatience forced me to jog and I dropped to my knees next to the figure on the ground. He was curled around himself, hands and feet tucked tight against his body. The shorn head remained pressed against his drawn up knees. I reached out with a shaking hand, half convinced I’d killed him by dying myself, and touched his head.

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