Dinosaurs! (Forger of Worlds Book 3) by Simon Archer

Author:Simon Archer [Archer, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-09T22:00:00+00:00

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As we walked back to camp with the spoils of our hunt safely packed away in my inventory, the sun got lower, causing the greenish cast to the light to intensify. At the same time, with every step closer that we got to camp, the unsettling feeling I’d had before started to build again. The weird thing was, I realized that the sense of being observed by an unknown presence didn’t bother me. It just didn’t feel malevolent, and something about it was familiar, though I couldn’t figure out why.

No, what bothered me was, well, that it didn’t bother me. The logical part of my brain was telling me that whatever it was could be casting a spell to lull me into a false sense of safety, and I should be on my guard against Thera, or the villagers, or some forest monster. Maybe those lizard people Kanil had told me about had shamans, and one of them was messing with me.

So, yeah, I was freaking out because I wasn’t freaking out, and when the foghorn-tuba blatted as we got close to the village, I just about jumped out of my skin. Fortunately, Thera was ahead of me and didn’t see. When we walked through the gate, and it swung closed behind me, part of me was sure it was a trap, but that suspicious part was drowned out by the feeling that I’d come home.

A teenage boy approached Thera. She handed him her gore-crusted club without a word, and then she started walking toward a hut set off by itself at the edge of the main village.

Once she’d gone, all eyes were on me, and there was a long, awkward silence as everyone tried to hide their disappointment. One of the guards cleared her throat and said sympathetically, “So, the hunt was not successful.”

That’s when I pulled the first, smallest Troodon out of my Inventory, in a neat stack of haunches and ribs with the head balanced on top. Before they had stopped boggling at a dinosaur appearing out of thin air, I pulled out a couple of leg-o-Hadrosaur, then a second Troodon, followed by various cuts of Hadrosaur meat, and more Troodon, and more Hadrosaur, piece after piece after piece. It took a good five minutes to bring everything out, while my audience went from whispers of amazement at my little magic trick, to raucous cheers. Everyone grabbed what they could carry and headed toward the village square.

As we passed the storehouse I’d been in with Denno earlier in the day, he came out the door with two other guys, each carrying an armload of stuff. Two paces behind them were Queenie and Scout, also loaded down with an assortment of fruits and leaf-wrapped parcels.

“Queenie,” I eyed her suspiciously, “you stayed away from the tahn, right?”

“Of course, master,” she replied with a bewildered look. “You commanded me to not have another tahn, and I would never disobey my master.”

Relieved, I said, “I should know I can always count on you.

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