Greystone Valley by Charlie Brooks

Author:Charlie Brooks [Brooks, Charlie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9781938821400
Publisher: Grey Gecko Press
Published: 2013-04-15T05:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Some of the fey stayed to fight, preparing oaken staves or magical power in response to Pan’s orders, but most of them fled as the army of beast-men closed in on them.

Aries let go of the dragons’ leashes, allowing the monstrous lizards to take to the air. They breathed fire through the trees, blackening the bark of ancient oaks and turning the canopy of leaves overhead into a ceiling of flames. They grinned wickedly as their fangs and claws found the flesh of their favorite food, the fey.

Pan tucked the book under his arm and turned to face Aries. The massive beast-man grinned and lowered his head for a charge. Pan kicked at the ground with one of his hooves. Then he, too, lowered his head. The two creatures ran full speed at one another as the battle began to unfold around them. They met with a crash that shattered the air and made the ground shake.

Sarah found that she had closed her eyes when the two creatures had met in battle. When she opened them, she saw that Pan had fallen. Blood flowed from a gash in the goat-man’s forehead. Aries staggered for a moment, himself shaken by the collision. But he recovered quickly and let out a bellow of triumph when he saw the fallen fey before him.

“Untie us!” Sarah shouted. “We’ll help you!”

It was no use, though. The fey were already lost in the heat of battle. They either rushed to meet the oncoming swarm of beast-men or fled deeper into the forest to avoid the fangs of the dragons. The companions were forgotten. To Sarah, it seemed like it would only be a matter of time before they would be trampled by some unheeding beast-man. She fought desperately for some way to get free, but the bonds were too tight to untie, and the ropes were too well spun to break. She thought hard, but she could only think of one other way out. “Kay, the book!”

The book lay where it had fallen from Pan’s grasp, only a little way away from the group. Every spell in the world was contained within it. Surely, there had to be some spell in there that would untie their ropes.

Upon hearing Sarah’s cry, Kay nodded and began to crawl desperately toward the spellbook. Sarah squirmed forward, too, although the pair had to stop frequently to avoid being trampled by the chaotic warriors around them. Finally, they managed to get to the book. Sarah forced herself into a sitting position and turned her back to Kay. Grabbing the cover with hands that were bound behind her, she started turning the pages while Kay read. “Tell me when to stop,” she shouted over the din of the battle. “And hurry!”

“All right,” Kay muttered, “let’s see… we need something that can undo our bindings. I think there’s some sort of rope trick in here somewhere. Skip ahead seven pages.”

Closing her eyes, Sarah focused on the feeling of each page between her fingers and thumb.

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