God of Magic 3 by Logan Jacobs

Author:Logan Jacobs [Jacobs, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The next morning, I was awoken by Merlin sitting on my chest and gnawing on the last bits of a turtle skeleton that he’d gotten from his new orc friends the previous night. The puca flicked his tail in a pleased sort of way when he noticed that I was awake and loudly crunched up a piece of bone as if to brag about what he had.

“That’s all yours, buddy,” I assured him as I lifted him off my chest and set him on the grass next to me. Then I brushed the crushed turtle bone off of my blanket before I got up and began to pack up my bedroll and other belongings. Across the fire which had burned to a low smolder, Lavinia stirred and sat up.

“Sun’s up,” she observed with a frown, and I guessed that she was disappointed to have slept past the sunrise. The ranger had an uncanny ability to wake up before dawn no matter where we were or how late we’d been up the night before.

“Barely,” I replied with a teasing smirk. “You are allowed to sleep in every now and then, you know.”

Lavinia swept her long white hair back away from her horns and into a ponytail as she mulled that over. Finally, she sighed as she stood and began to pack her things.

“It’s hard to get used to,” she said quietly. “Hunting’s better before dawn.”

I remembered what the ladona woman had told me about her life before she’d joined the Shadow Foxes. Orphaned at a young age, she’d had to learn to shoot to provide for herself. Her incredible skill as an archer and a tracker were born out of necessity, and it made sense that the habits she’d learned from that part of her life would be hard to break.

Before I could respond, Urim sat up and rubbed his eyes, and when he saw that Lavinia and I were already awake, he turned to Sulla’s sleeping form, shoved him roughly, and growled out some sort of command in orcish. Though Lavinia and I had taken care to keep our voices down, Urim spoke loud enough to wake the whole camp.

Lena, Aerin, Emeline, and Rezo raised their heads sleepily, but Maruk’s reaction was much more pronounced. The orc shot up with a look of panic and was halfway to his feet before he seemed to realize where he was and fixed a tired glare at Urim and Sulla.

“Must you do that?” Maruk groaned, his blanket still clutched in his hand.

“What did you do?” Lavinia asked as she stared at Urim. “It’s impossible to get him up.”

“It is the wake-up call we use on the ship,” Urim replied as he grinned around his tusks.

“It’s also a call to battle stations,” Maruk grouched. “You nearly gave me a heart attack.”

“Ah, don’t get soft, Maruk,” Sulla chided as he stood and shook out his blanket. Like everything else the orc owned, it appeared to be spotted with old blood stains.

“Can you teach me how to say that?” Lavinia asked.

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