Memory of Dragons by Michael G Munz

Author:Michael G Munz [Munz, Michael G]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780997762297
Publisher: Red Muse Press
Published: 2020-06-14T22:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

Austin yelled for help. With splinters in her hands from where she hit the wooden rooftop, she turned and saw Austin fighting with the thiesm. The latter had him pinned against the wall, snarling like a feral badger. Both clutched the daypack.

She shot to her feet as Austin struggled to force Fefferman off. They spun in an instant, reversing positions, and Fefferman threw himself to one side. At once Austin gave a yank in the other direction. It wasn’t enough. Fefferman’s body turned to stone in a wink’s time, still falling to the side, and his now-rock hard grip on the pack ripped it from Austin’s hands.

Corinna rushed forward as the thiesm crashed to the rooftop beside the hole in the wall the gomlen had blasted. Momentum threatened to pitch him over the edge. Her fingertips scraped on the pack, but Fefferman returned to life before she could get a grip, kicking furiously and clutching it to his chest. The blow shoved her back. She stumbled on the rubble and landed again on her bum.

“How often can he do that?” Austin demanded. He started after Fefferman but stopped short as the latter, yet on his knees, pulled out another gomlen.

“Sorry, no idea! First thiesm I’ve actually met, you know!”

“Don’t have to kill you!” Fefferman cried. “He just wants the crystal! No choice in that!”

“You don’t have to do this!” Austin yelled. “We can help each other!”

“Too powerful! No hope! Get back!” Fefferman clutched the gomlen in one hand and dangled the pack over the edge with the other.

Corinna regained her feet, then backed off a few steps. Her blood pounded in her ears. There was no telling how many golmens Fefferman had to throw at them, and no guarantee he would miss again even if the one he held were his last. The pack swung out over the drop-off. She had no idea what was below. Grass, or more stone that might shatter the crystal? Even if they both rushed him and got past the gomlen, he might very well drop it before they could get it back.

“Fefferman!” she tried. “If you drop that crystal, if it breaks — we’re all dead!”

“Fefferman’s dead either way, pretty one, unless you stink off and leave me alone! Give it to me, leave me be, Maeron leaves you be! Eh? Eh?”

“Do you even know what that is?” Austin asked. “What’s at stake?”

“Hah! Do you? Because she told you? All pretty and trustable? Leave me be! Biggest gomlen! Not so easy to dodge!” He raised the gomlen higher, threatening to throw it her way. Corinna tensed to defend herself.

Austin took a step back and asked her, “Can you get the pack?” She was ten feet away; he had to know the only way she could was with magic.

“I don’t want to do that, Austin!”

“Eh, see? She agrees with Fefferman! Back off says I!”

“We don’t have much choice!”

She swallowed and took her gaze from the gomlen to the satchel, measuring, reluctant. “Fefferman,” she tried, “there

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