Bear Knight by James R. Hannibal

Author:James R. Hannibal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Christian, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9798886050332
Publisher: Enclave Escape
Published: 2022-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

34

Liteh plumond, ond se moradiend, okeb ke’Rumosh mod eledol bi yadod.

When I fall, I will not be overwhelmed. He holds me up.

Sea-green light shone all around Teegan an instant before her body slammed into the wet ice. Pain rushed through her, yet she felt no muscles splitting, no bones breaking. A good thing, but she was still sliding. The water carried her down the sloping crevice into the dark, and clawing at the walls did nothing.

Claws. Iron claws. Teegan rolled over and kicked the spikes at her toes into the ice. It worked. She slowed, then stopped. With effort, she found her feet, and the spikes gave her the grip she needed to stay upright.

Again, she checked her body for wounds. She found none beyond the scratch in her calf and a lingering ache.

Onoriov, Rumosh. “Pedrig? Dag!”

“They’re not here, little firecap. Not here. Not here. Only the dark, the cold, and us.”

More voices answered. “Us. Yes. We. Only us, pretty firecap. Us. Us.”

The small chasm dampened and channeled the sounds so that Teegan could tell without question that not all the voices came from in front of her.

Her eyes adjusted, and the goblins took shape—three in front and four behind. All carried knives or scimitars of ice and bore long dirty claws. Teegan reached for her trident, but realized she’d left it pinned to the dead goblin above. She had no weapons beyond her hunting knife and the small ice axe the outfitter had given her. She drew both. “You will not prevail.”

The guardians had taught her a sacred verse for moments like this—a declaration of the Maker’s sovereignty over his creation. The truth of his words and power alone would disrupt the dragon corruption of fungus and unravel their flesh. But when she tried to bring the verse to mind, a cold burning flared in the scratch on her leg. She let out an involuntary cry.

The goblins cackled and advanced.

A screech broke their laughter. Aethia soared down through the crevasse and shot past Teegan’s shoulder to harry the creatures at her back. Teegan smashed her shield into the goblin at her front, then swung her ice axe and buried its pick in the staggering creature’s skull.

The next goblin in line paid no mind to its fallen comrade and stabbed at her with its scimitar. Her shield held, but the goblin dodged her axe. It ran up the wall of ice and attacked from her side, landing a blow that rang against her glowing helmet. Though it did not penetrate, the force of it put all her weight on her wounded leg. She crumpled.

The goblin fell upon her, sword descending. Teegan rolled her shield into place in time to defend, but how long could she hold? Sea-green sparks sizzled and popped where the creature stood atop her shield, wounding it terribly. Yet it did not stop, and despite her falcon’s efforts, the others closed in.

Doused in meltwater, Teegan shivered with cold and fear, but she fought through it to grasp one of her favorite verses from the Scrolls.

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