Lifemarked (The Fatemarked Epic Book 5) by David Estes

Author:David Estes [Estes, David]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

Sixty-Four

The Western Kingdom, Knight’s End

Bane Gäric

He’d saved Knight’s End for last, because it was a place filled with screams and blood in his memory. A place where he knew he’d gone over the edge, finding joy in the killing, in the spilling of blood, regardless of the righteous intent that lay behind it all.

He’d already traveled much of the Four Kingdoms in the span of a few hours. First, he’d watched as Raven Sandes’ body was burned to ash by her own dragon. One, he’d thought, wondering who the other would be. Then he’d shifted northward to Darrin, which lay in ruin, deserted and spattered in blood. It was in the frozen north that he’d felt his chest tighten. It had felt like someone was squeezing his very heart, trying to pop it. He’d gasped and flopped on the ground, and eventually the feeling had passed. It was probably just the stress of all that had happened. He tried not to think about it, instead refocusing on his search. Next he’d visited the iron city of Ferria, but most of the legionnaires were gone, along with Gareth Ironclad. Not dead, just gone.

Now, as he looked upon Knight’s End, the city’s destruction was complete. None survived save the crows.

So much death, and though Bane had killed many times before, his was for the greater good, or so he’d always believed. This, however, was mindless, purposeless. Death for the sake of death, half-chewed carrion left to rot or be picked apart by dark scavengers. I can stop this, he thought. I can save them all.

But…

Finally—finally—he had a partner in all this. We’re two sides of the same coin—dark and light, death and life. Together, we can end this. Only together.

But…

Bane had hurt so many. He knew he’d done it for the right reasons but it didn’t stop him from wondering whether what he’d done had been right. Have I done any good in this world? He wasn’t certain. And if he hadn’t, this was an opportunity to change all that.

But…

He knew what Roan would say—“We have to do this together”—but Bane didn’t want anyone else to die. After all, the original prophecy promised the deaths of eight rulers, a prophecy that was now fulfilled. The two additional portions of his deathmark came later. Perhaps they were only suggestions. Perhaps he could save those two lives. And why couldn’t he save rather than kill? He held the very power over death in the marking that burned on his scalp.

Yes, he thought, full of purpose once more. He would find the Horde. He would find their leader. And he would kill him. Then he would kill them all to save the rest.

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