Alpha Physics - Book 1,2 & 3 - Box Set by Kozlowski Alex

Author:Kozlowski, Alex
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-21T00:00:00+00:00

Delay: Chapter 31

The closest golden creature was less than a hundred meters away.

Fire Salamander (female)

Female Fire Salamanders rarely emerge to the surface, preferring to live underground to tend to their young. They surface once every two hundred and six days to honour the maturing of the latest clutch.

Female salamanders are more intelligent and more physically and magically powerful than their male counterparts.

Over twenty of the golden lizards had emerged. They were all at least a foot longer than the male ones. Scales that ran down their backs looked like pure gold, while their remaining scales glowed like burnished bronze.

It was the sort of wonderful design that a supremely talented human artist might create, a natural masterpiece that might be closer to the insect displays in museums: shiny vivid colours preserved so magnificently and so many of them with such exquisite beauty. The lizards had the same effect. Sometimes nature did something special.

The females began singing, collectively raising their head to contribute to a beautiful harmony that ebbed and flowed, occasionally dominated by high tones, other times with lower notes. The males not on sentry duty started thumping their back legs in a steady drumbeat. After a moment, their tails joined in, coming down every fourth pulse. The female song entwined with the drum baseline. The singing did not contain any magic, but it was still the sort that would get repeatedly played at a nightclub.

The male lizards made a big circle around the females. The rhythmic beat kept going as they did, then the crooning died off.

Something was about to happen. An individual female started singing. It sounded like a lament of loss to Adrian; it probably represented a different emotion to the lizard. Regional knowledge had nothing to share with him.

Flame sprouts started up in one section of the male circle. A single sprout shot straight up, then the one next to that lizard fired up, and so on, creating a wave of fire that went around the circle, so that at any moment only a small part of the line was lit. The middle flame was always the highest, with six to seven sprouts of various sizes on either side. Both the most recent and oldest ones were the smallest. The light show stayed in tune with a beat that kept going while the melody swept over everything as other females joined in the celebration.

Beautiful.

Ambusher’s Fade foiled his tendency to speak out loud. Repeatedly. That stupidity of speaking when in stealth would have either gotten him killed or stamped out if the skill did not keep saving him. His impulses never had consequences, so it became difficult to train himself. No matter how many times he reminded himself to stay silent, something slipped out of his brain every now and again only to have the unpleasant sensation of Ambusher’s Fade stopping the movement. The two sentries were still in front of him, watching out for their enemies with bleak concentration.

The interface seemed to agree with his assessment regarding his foolishness.

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