Close Protection Orc: An Action Packed Urban Fantasy Thriller (Faerie Protective Services Inc. Book 4) by Robert McKinney

Author:Robert McKinney [McKinney, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McKinney Can't Press
Published: 2020-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

The whispers returned along with the horn. They came in ones and threes and sixes at first, but then passed on into dozens, hundreds, too many to count or even comprehend.

Fuuucking Hell. I didn’t know much about the whispers or where they came from. But the sheer volume of the whispers I was hearing meant that the incoming magic was big. Maybe even working on the scale of those used by archfae and the Lords of Faerie. If I thought that the Colonel and I needed to get the Hell away before, I sure as Hell was eager to move now. Movement still wasn’t an option, though. Not with the time that the Colonel and I had left. I needed to think of something else, and do it fast.

I scanned the stand of trees around us. Terrain like this obscured vision and provided many places to hide. While a scout like myself, which tend to be more oriented to fighting on the move than in one static position, would have loved to fight in a place like this under normal circumstances, the Colonel’s bad leg meant that we wouldn’t be able to adopt our normal approach of firing, hacking, finishing, and relocating until we ran out of enemies.

If being mobile wasn’t an option, then I had to lean into what skills we had left. And if you know anything about scouts, you know that all of us are damn good at hiding.

I took a few seconds to put together a plan that, depending on how many creatures were in route along with that horn, had a chance of working out. All I needed was a decent firing position for myself, and for the Colonel to trust me.

I gave Colonel Treg the rough cut of what I wanted to try, then dragged him over to a tree where he could start building himself a hideout. Branches, brush, and blankets from our bags - he used all of it to build himself a camouflaged spot that could stand up to inspection at arm’s length. Once he added in a layer of glamour like the one he’d used outside my job earlier in the day, he was invisible in every sense of the word that mattered. After that, I wove my way past the remaining tripwires, and ran to the edge of the woods nearest to where I’d heard the horn earlier.

I didn’t have to wait long. Within seconds of arriving at the treeline, I saw two horsemen appear on the horizon. To no surprise, they moved with the same uncanny grace that I’d come to associate with creatures that lived long enough to spend a spare century or two on one skill or another. It was only when they came closer that I realized what I was seeing.

My first instinct about the two riders had technically been right. There was indeed a pair of fae, their eyes hidden by leather caps that reminded me of blends between old school football helmets and the headgear worn by the spartans in film.

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