Dungeon Master 4 by Eric Vall

Author:Eric Vall [Vall, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The city of Eifersucht wasn’t as bustling in the morning like it was when we first arrived. The sun barely peeked up from the east as we left the Purple Conch where we rented a room for the night. I pulled out the map Haruhi had given us the night before and examined it as we stepped over a bridge towards the north side of town. Carmedy yawned loudly and rubbed at her stomach with a sad expression, and Rana ruffled the black cat’s short hair.

“I know you’re upset, but not every tavern is going to serve pies in the morning.” The redhead smiled as she tried to cheer up the alchemist.

“I haven’t had any pie since we left Tamarisch,” Carmedy whined as she rubbed at her sleepy emerald eyes.

Annalise snorted as she turned back to look at the cat from beside me. “We haven’t been away from Tamarisch for more than a week. Our cook gave you a pie right before we left, remember?” the swordswoman chided through a grin and Carmedy hung her head sadly.

“I tried to make it last,” the cat-woman whined as she dropped her paws to her sides dejectedly.

“As I recall, you ate the entire pie within five minutes of leaving the Tamarisch palace,” Morrigan said with her face straightforward while Fea and Macha bobbed up and down on her shoulders as she walked smoothly.

“I said I tried to make it last, okay?” Carmedy grumbled then giggled to herself. “It was a perfect pie though, one of the best I’ve ever had.”

We were almost out of the town of Eifersucht, nearly to where the floating city ended and the rough terrain of the mountain began, when a man called out to us. I prepared myself to be assaulted with flirtations, but surprisingly, very few romantic words came from the shop owner.

“Going up the mountain, are ya?” he called to us. I turned, and my minions stopped in their tracks beside me as he beckoned us over. “Not sure where you’re going, but the terrain up the mountain is too harsh for such lovely ladies to walk by foot.”

I looked down at my minion’s feet at his mention. Their shoes were sensible and fine for the other places we had traveled before. I glanced up towards the trail we were heading up and saw it was steep and uneven with large rocks and boulders.

“What do you suggest we do?” Rana snarked as she cocked her hip out. “Fly up the mountain?”

“Nay, the last thing that could fly you to different places were dragons, and those have been dead for a long time,” the man said as he waved us over to the before-unseen crates behind him. The crates stood about eight feet tall and had thin wooden slats on the side to allow air flow inside, and as we moved closer, we could see what was inside. “But how about a distant cousin to dragons?”

Inside the crates were huge chickens, taller than the average man and large enough to ride.

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