Of Killers and Kings by Will Wight

Author:Will Wight [Wight, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: Hidden Gnome Publishing
Published: 2020-04-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

present day

Silver mist filled the bedroom in which Shera crouched, flooding through the building, pouring out the hole the bullet had broken in the outer window.

She slipped behind the bed, hiding herself from further shots. Her head spun with the effort of using her Soulbound power so heavily with no preparation.

Bastion whispered contentedly in her mind.

It was satisfied with a job well done; the mists would protect her now, and they would serve as the signal for others who would soon come to protect. Its greatest purpose, to defend the Am’haranai in the execution of their duties, was being fulfilled.

Meia and Jorin had gone to great lengths to bring a team into the Capital, hiding them among the crowd.

An assassination was far better than a frontal attack, but they had come to back her up. They didn’t want to start another fight like the one in which Estyr had fallen…but they would if they had to.

Now, the stealthy approach had failed. Backup was on its way.

She just had to survive.

When Jorin and Meia saw the mist, they would enter the building. Shera would evade her enemies long enough for that to happen.

Once her head stopped spinning, she dipped her awareness into the fog. She couldn’t afford to tire herself out here, but she caught a few glimpses of what awaited her outside the door.

She waited until the pair of Imperial Guards had approached her room, then she leaped from inside.

Her objective was to escape, not to kill, and even now it was better to keep the body count low.

Jorin and Bareius and Kerian had all emphasized that fact over and over. She wasn’t supposed to kill anyone she didn’t have to.

So the first Imperial Guard took a needle to the side of the neck and the second took one in the thigh.

She was already dashing down the hall when she realized that her fears had been realized: one of the Imperial Guards processed poisons faster than the others. The Guard screamed an alarm, her voice echoing through the halls: “THIRD FLOOR, HEADING EAST!”

Bastion’s Veil treated sounds strangely. If she had just yelled for an intruder, her allies might not have found her, but she had shouted Shera’s location.

This is exactly why you kill people.

Shera dashed down the hall, gripping Bastion tightly. She only needed to dodge pursuers until Meia showed up, so she would find another unlocked room and slip inside. After they checked the halls, they would realize that she had hidden somewhere, but by then it would be too late.

But when she turned the corner, the Veil granted her a vision of a new pursuer.

He dashed through the mist in a blur of motion.

Champion.

She leaped backward just in time to avoid a man crashing through the wall after her. Wood and painted plaster exploded outward, coating the walls and floor.

The Champion was covered in weaponry, as though he’d made himself armor out of every sword, knife, and axe-head he owned. Three swords were strapped to one hip, two swords on the other, and another on his back.

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