Battle Mage: The Lost King (Tales of Alus) by Wigboldy Donald

Author:Wigboldy, Donald [Wigboldy, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-10-05T07:00:00+00:00

Gray clouds had moved in during the afternoon making the gray stone of the castle almost black against the back drop of the sky. Bare stone ran from the beach all the way up a steep cliff side to the base of the castle, while the trees and brush of the forest seemed to stall at the base to the west of the dark hill as if avoiding the castle’s domain. Windows that had once held glass looked like the stark eye sockets of a dead fortress, but the stone blocks appeared strong and had resisted the weather of more than a hundred years at least. While it looked old, Sebastian thought that it was probably a younger castle than most of those he had been to and lived in since leaving White Hall.

In the protection of a small harbor, they had taken note that the remains of an old dock or pier still held a ragged line in the water directly beneath the shadow of the castle and its hill. It had been made of wooden, but the pylons that had been set were stone. Even the stone columns were worn and broken, but the uniform nature of the pieces could still be seen by the investigators despite time’s attempts to destroy.

Taking a short break to ready for the climb, the team soon set out towards the top of the hill using the twisting line of stone stairs. It was a little more steep than expected and the footing was a little suspect in places, but eventually the men and women of Southwall stood before the stone fortress. Looking at a building over forty feet high and twice as wide, Sebastian actually found it a little underwhelming. He wondered if the castle was more like a fortified home instead, since it was large, but nowhere near the size of the central keeps of Windmeer or Hala.

Worn wood doors that had gashes in the surface, perhaps from the beasts of the forest, were bound in iron pitted with age. No one had lived here in ages, Sebastian thought, and wondered if they would find any clues in the dead skeleton from a former age.

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