Goblin Wrath: Armageddon of the Greenskins Book 2 (Armageddon of Greenskins) by Sean Hall

Author:Sean Hall [Hall, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Chapter Twenty

Again, I escaped the clutches of death. Only the darkness and voices remained. In it, I found those I lost and many other faces I had never known. It was like floating above a sea of faces, all cold and white, their eyes stark and lifeless. I was getting familiar with the feeling, like a memory that kept coming back. This was my life now. I had become the one who remained, survived, while everyone else died. It was both a curse and a burden.

“You think too much, Lord Loren,” Kayele said. The sea of bodies was gone. I could smell smoke in the air. Smoke, charred corpses and piss. There is no dignity in death. Many of those faced with imminent death void their bowels from shear fear right before, while all who die do so. I’ve only seen orcs face death like boulders welcoming the rush of a high wave, taking it without a flinch.

Kayele had been no orc.

Denur was flattened, crushed against the mountain it was built upon. Balzark and its monsters had swept the town, reducing it to half-cracked homes and blood stained ground. And from the chaos there was silence. Only my thoughts and Kayele’s labored breaths pierced the quiet.

She laid on the ground, the top half on her back while I could see her bottom half some paces away. Her legs were folded awkwardly, smashed and crushed by the force of Balzark’s teeth snapping her in two. Her insides were sliding out, a soft hissing sound oozing off her skin with steam. She was scared, terrified of what was coming to her, and yet she smiled.

“I am so… We should get Eledine to hel…”

“It is far too late, Lord Loren. Too late for me, my Lord. But not for you.” I stared at her, confused by what she meant. Why was it too late to save her? She was still talking, which meant she still had life in her. I have never seen Eledine’s kind of magic, but I had a weird conviction that she could help. She could piece Kayele together. Make her whole again.

I ran to her other half, picked it up slowly, reverently, as if I could somehow ruin it if I wasn’t careful. I heard Kayele screaming. She was shouting for me to leave it alone. She wanted me to think about myself. I couldn’t understand what she meant. Perhaps it was shock, or maybe it hurt her when I heaved her lower half.

“You don’t listen, do you? You can’t see it. This is too late. I am gone already.”

I shook my head. There was no way she was gone. I could see her. She was right here. She was mine and not even this wound could take her away from me. I would cut through the sky to protect her like she protected me. I placed her body down, realizing something I should have seen immediately, her voice bringing me out of the darkness.

“Where is everyone?” I asked, looking around.

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