Onslaught of Madness (The Madness Wars Book 1) by Jesse Teller

Author:Jesse Teller [Teller, Jesse]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Gris ate very little and most of the deer was left. He threw the body over his shoulder and walked off into the trees without saying a word. Bonzen shared a look with Tobin and Kee-toe. “Where is he going?” Tera asked.

“To eat as a beast,” Bonzen said.

Tera nodded. She looked down to her lap and sighed. “He shouldn’t have to live this way,” Tera said. “When we find the Perpetual Child, I will pray with her. Together we will ask for Boxhead to cure him of this curse.”

“Oh, no,” Bonzen muttered. “Kee-toe, she doesn’t know what she is saying.”

Kee-toe tossed his flute aside and locked eyes with Tera. “What? What did you just say?” His face flushed, and he flexed his hands into talons.

“Kee-toe,” Bonzen said.

“No. She said it and now she can say it again.” He pointed his finger accusingly at her. “Say it again! Say he is cursed again!”

“The girl did not mean to insult…” Seferen began.

“You silence yourself, abomination.” Kee-toe was on his feet, his weapons in hand. “I will pound you to splinters and dust if you ever speak to me again.” Kee-toe turned to Tera, staring at her through his braids. “I want you to say it again. Say that the man who is making sacrifices for you, who is protecting you and feeding you, who is marching days out of his way to help you on your holy quest, a holy quest set down by a god he doesn’t even worship, say again this man is cursed. Say it so I can have your tongue for it.”

Bonzen looked at Tobin, and then to Tera. He shook his head wearily. “Kee-toe, calm down.”

“I thought… I just assumed he was a, well, a lycanthrope, that he was a werebear. That’s what it is that grips him, isn’t it?” Tera said.

Bonzen, who had been watching Tera with a glimmer of hope in his eyes, lowered his head and exhaled.

“A werebear? You thought my Alpha was a werebear?” Kee-toe took two steps toward her. His shadow fell on her, wavering and dancing in the firelight. “A cursed creature that hunts man with hatred in its heart? A creature that runs from kill to kill with no thought of what it is destroying? This is what you think of him? This is what you think of the man who saved your life—who is keeping you alive—you want to heal him of his affliction?” Kee-toe screamed. “I’m gonna say this one time and one time only. We don’t need anything from you. We follow the Mother. Dervo provides for us. If we need healing, our goddess will do it.”

Kee-toe turned, stomping back to his seat at the fire. “I don’t know what is more insulting, thinking our goddess would fail to protect us from the curse of lycanthropy, or assuming we would follow a werecreature.”

Tera lowered her head, staring at her sword handle lying on the ground beside her. “I’m sorry I have offended you. I do not know what Gris is.

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