Dragonlance - Preludes 2 - Kendermore by Mary Kirchoff

Author:Mary Kirchoff [Kirchoff, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Dragons, Monsters, Magic, Heroes
ISBN: 9780786929474
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Published: 2003-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Phineas stopped dead in his tracks. He turned around and practically ran back to the ponies. "What are you doing, leading us into a magical grove? And a Tower of High Sorcery at its center! Are you crazy?" Just as sud-denly, he stopped again and gave the kender a skeptical glare. "I don't see any tower. And I don't see anything magical about these woods. Besides, how do you know

all this?"

"The grove's effect isn't physical," Trapspringer ex-plained. "The grove just sort of... makes whatever you're feeling at the moment seem more intense and hard to control."

"Gods, that's stupid, Trapspringer! You obviously think I'm a simpleton!" His eyes narrowed as he con-fronted the kender. "I know what you're up to, though. You think you can scare me into running away so you

can find Damaris. Then you'll go back to Kendermore as the big hero and get the map from your nephew for your-self!" He poked a finger into Trapspringer's chest. "You're not dealing with some silly kender, you know." Phineas's head was throbbing fiercely, and he'd never felt so angry and frightened at the same time.

Trapspringer's almond-shaped eyes grew wide with

unaccustomed fury. "Silly kender! You smelly, bug-infested sack of straw! You're nothing but a cowardly, toadying hobgoblin! And I'll bet it comes from your

mother's side of the family! I never thought any human could be stupid enough to reproduce with a hobgoblin, but if there was one, he'd be your father! And he'd still be smarter than you!" Trapspringer raised his hoopak threateningly.

Phineas didn't wait to see what the kender intended to do with his forked weapon. The human spun around,

dropped to his knees, and crawled furiously through the brush and into the depths of the grove. He had to reach the tower and find Damaris Metwinger before Trap-springer!

"Phineas, come back!" Trapspringer called, tears well-ing in his eyes. "Was it something I said? Whatever it was, I didn't mean it. I haven't meant anything I've said for years. Except what I just said. I think." Trapspringer was terribly confused.

The kender's heart was near to breaking. He wiped the tears away angrily. Phineas is all alone in the grove, and it's my fault! he thought. Huge, hiccupping sobs racked his small frame. He crashed through the tangled growth of the forest after the human, blinded by his tears. Branches slapped him, thorns tore at his clothing, his hoopak thumped behind him, banging against his right heel. Then, "Whooooffff!" All the air exploded out of the kender's lungs as he slammed into another living, run-ning creature. Trapspringer was thrown backward by the force of the blow. He landed on a small bush, its stiff branches stab-bing his back. His eyes were closed as he struggled for a few ragged gulps of air. But whoever had hit him jumped on top of him now, swinging and clawing at him like a ti-ger.

"Phineas?" he gasped, fending off the blows. Whoever it was pressed him flat to the ground and

slammed its mouth down on his and stayed there, the

kiss becoming more and more insistent.

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