Crisis of Fate: The Madness Wars Companion Novel by Jesse Teller

Crisis of Fate: The Madness Wars Companion Novel by Jesse Teller

Author:Jesse Teller [Teller, Jesse]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-15T05:00:00+00:00


Arundis found a perch overlooking the courtyard of Traitor’s Lane. The roof he stood on was safe. The spells he cast on it would warn him long before anyone snuck up on him. He stared at the lane, thinking about the Lark, the syndicate that ran this street, and how they heard about him.

Very few people knew he was in town. The mysterious woman must be working for the Lark. The little band of cutthroats had barely any source of income and few people of power. He was actually relieved to find out it was the Lark. Of all the gangs in the city of Wrathe, they were the weakest, the least connected, and the most backward. He looked down on his good fortune, waiting for any sign of his enemy.

The streets were oddly still. Arundis realized no pubs caroused in this section of town. His heart seized in fear, and he cursed. He noticed a small stream of dark liquid rolling from an alley down into the courtyard. Arundis thought it sludge and feces, then decided it was too thin and runny to be that at all. He leapt from the roof to fall six stories and land lightly on the ground. He closed the distance to the stream and touched it with two fingers, then brought it up to his nose.

Blood.

He turned to the alley and held tight rein on his fear. He followed the stream to its source, a strong current that could only mean a great deal of death. When he reached the shadowy alley, he spoke a word, and his magic took hold. The darkness peeled away to betray a slaughter the likes of which he had only seen from the armies of Drine.

He was immediately pulled back to his final days in Eleacont, the wonder of Tienne, and the blood that ran its streets. He slowly stepped into the carnage. The faces had been wiped clean. Every eye had been pulled open. Whoever had done this wanted the men and women here to be identified. Arundis wove his way through the slaughter until he found himself in the back of the alley at a man eviscerated and nailed to the wall. Arundis looked into the clean face of the master of the Lark, then glanced around, finding many of the faces of the syndicate.

He stepped back and out of the alley to the courtyard, where two figures stood at the end of the stream, their boots in the pool of blood. One could be none other than the woman he spent the last few months searching for, the other was a short, young-looking man.

“Time we got to know each other,” the short, thin man said. He had blond hair and a light bit of facial hair. He wore no weapons, was dressed in silk of blue and white, his smile friendly and deadly.

Arundis stalked to the center of the courtyard and stopped before them both.

She had her arm thrown around the man, and Arundis was instantly jealous.



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