Chronicles Of Aronshae (3 Book Omnibus) by J.K. Barber

Author:J.K. Barber
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

Branden stood by the table, looking at the map of Snowhaven and the land around it. Having lived there for years, the smith could easily picture in his mind the places indicated by the various marks and wooden symbols that had been placed on the map by General Frey. Branden looked across the table at his old friend and saw Frey’s furrowed brow. The expression on his face only confirmed what Branden knew to be the truth: Snowhaven was not going to fall easily.

I, myself, helped make it such a tough nut to crack, the King’s Guard thought to himself as he looked at the map. Snowhaven was situated and built to do exactly what it was doing; keep anyone from traveling the pass through the World’s Edge Mountains and into Illyander. Unfortunately, the town was now doing its job in reverse. It was keeping the King’s Army from traveling through the same pass into the Frozen March. Also, unfortunately, the Ice Queen was in possession of Snowhaven and probably readying for a push into Illyander.

Frey still did not know the number of troops the Ice Queen commanded. There had never been a true survey of the lands north of Snowhaven. Some believed there hadn’t been more than a couple hundred ice orcs in all of the Frozen March. However, the attack that had finally captured Snowhaven disproved that theory. Easily a thousand blue-skinned brutes, accompanied by half as many men and supplementary siege equipment had fallen upon the border town like a great wave of destruction and violence. Frey’s scouts further reported that more ice orcs had joined the original invading force, swelling the ranks of those now in Snowhaven to almost twice their number. As for the Ice Queen’s general himself, nothing was known about the man save for his appearance. He had fortified his position in Snowhaven, using the terrain of the surrounding hillsides to his advantage and shored up the southern gates of the town faster than Branden would have thought possible.

It was these same gates to which General Frey now pointed to on the map. “Near as our scouts can tell, they’ve been adding layer after layer of timber to the southern wall and gates. Huge trees cut down and shaped, then driven into the ground.” Cewin Frey ran his hand over his head in a gesture of weariness. “They wouldn’t have had the time to cut down the trees, shape them and put them in place. My scouts haven’t seen any logging parties leaving the town, so I can only conclude that they must have had the trees felled and cut ahead of time and then drug to the site.”

Captain Veldrun chimed in. “That means they were planning to conquer Snowhaven for some time and hold it, fortifying their position once they took the town.” The Captain’s words were spoken as a statement and not a question. Branden and everyone there had reached the same conclusion.

“Exactly,” General Frey replied, giving voice to the worry

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