Piers, Anthony - Xanth 05 - Ogre, Ogre by Anthony Piers

Author:Anthony, Piers [Anthony, Piers]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy - General, Fiction - Fantasy, General, Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy - Series, Science Fiction & Fantasy
ISBN: 9780345418531
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2010-09-24T05:00:00+00:00

160 Ogre, Ogre

a tune that sounded like a requiem. Smash had not imag-ined that so many flies existed in Xanth. They coated thetrees, they popped out of myriad holes in the ground, theyformed clouds in the sky that rained droppings.

The party arrived at a palace fashioned of flypapercoated with fly ash. Here, surrounded by a cluster of fawn-ing damselflies, perched the Lord of the Flies—a huge, de-monic figure with multiple-faceted eyes. He was readingthe flyleaf of a book titled The Sting by Wasp.

"Bzzzzzz?" the Fly Lord inquired, looking up with sev-eral facets.

The query seemed to be directed at Smash, but he didnot comprehend fly talk. He grunted noncommittally.

"Bzzzzzz!" the Fly repeated angrily.

Smash had an idea. He lifted the Gap Dragon's Ear tohis own. Maybe that would provide a translation.

All he heard was the roaring and hissing of dragons. Nohelp there.

The Fly buzzed again, angry light glinting from quite anumber of facets. Giant guardflies swarmed up to grab theEar. "Don't fight them, Smash!" Tandy cried, alarmed.

The ogre didn't like it, but realized they could all bebitten and stung to death if he made trouble. It was thecurse of the Eye Queue again, making him react intelli-gently. HeJet the flies take the Ear.

They dragged it to the Fly Lord, who cocked his head inorder to listen to it. And the Ear twitched, almost knockingthe Fly off his perch. "Bzzzzzz!" he buzzed angrily, andthere was a flutter of alarm among the damselflies. Itseemed the Lord had used very strong language. But he gotback up to listen. "Bzzzzzz!" and the guardflies hovered inmilitary readiness. "BZZZZZZ!" and the surroundingswarms retreated.

The Fly Lord angled a few facets at Smash, as if pon-dering a suitable action. Then he buzzed out another com-mand. Instantly the guardflies closed on Smash's partyagain, and the bowflies fired off another arrow pointingthe way.

"I don't know whether the Gap Dragon's Ear has pro-vided us with doom or reprieve," Chem said. "But we'dbetter go along."

Ogre, Ogre

They went along. The arrows pointed them to the east.Soon they arrived at the flypaper wall. At this point asquadron of big spearflies charged, threatening to run ev-ery member of the party through.

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