Battle Mage: A Hero's Welcome (A Tale of Alus Book 8) by Donald Wigboldy

Author:Donald Wigboldy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

Returning to the Sea Dragon, Sebastian received a new surprise. He had been talking to Yara beside him as they walked in the middle of the group, when the healer pulled up with a start. Her eyes locked on an unexpected sight standing before the walkway to the Sea Dragon.

Ashleen stood speaking with Serrena and Liam. Having gotten to know one another during her time onboard the ship and on the Grimnal’s island, the three were friendly and he had even noted a close bond formed between the two women. While having a slight difference in ages and being from two different lands, the wilder and wizard had found many other similarities. Unlike Ashleen, Yara had always had a harder time relating to the fire wizard, since being a healer meant different mindsets not only for magic but in all categories of their personalities.

Serrena caught sight of the group returning and waved with a smile. The fire wizard straightened as worry left her body. Though Sebastian wasn’t always sure what the volatile young woman might always do, he did know that he had her loyalty and friendship.

“Bas! You’re all still alive, so I assume that things went well?” she called out as they moved into hearing.

Nodding at the wizard, he couldn’t help glancing to Ashleen who smiled almost shyly as they approached. Her blue eyes flicked to Yara worriedly before returning to his face with a bit more hope.

Answering the wizard’s question before the one in his mind, as Annalicia and Reynolvan tried to ignore the women as they stepped up the heavy plank, Sebastian replied, “While I can’t say that I trust the man isn’t somehow involved with the emperor, he thanked us for stopping the threat of the orcs and even offered to set us up with horses to ride to Parik. He was polite enough at least and doesn’t seem to think we are from Southwall necessarily.”

Yara spoke up saying, “He mentioned battle mages without precisely calling you out, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t at least suspect.”

He nodded. “I plan to make sure that we leave a strong force to guard the ships and we’ll bring a solid group to Parik for sure. Just because he smiled and offered praise, doesn’t mean that he couldn’t sell us out.”

Frowning at the turn of the conversation, Serrena retorted, “So you think that he is just going through the motions of saying what a great guy you are while preparing to either sell you out or at least doing what he can to get you out of his town?”

Sebastian gave a shrug and his eyes moved to Ashleen again.

It was Yara who asked somewhat coldly, “What is she doing here? I mean, I thought that Ashleen was supposed to be keeping Helena out of trouble on the Carnivore.”

Making a face of distaste, Ashleen replied, “I was hoping that I might join you for the trip to the next gate, if only to get off of that ship for awhile.

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