Sight Beyond Epik Sight_A Steampunk Fantasy Romp by William Tyler Davis

Author:William Tyler Davis [Davis, William Tyler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

A ball of fire whizzed over the puffy bobble on Brendan’s wool hat.

Millie sent another spell, but the beast was barely fazed by them now, as if its molten skin adapted to magic.

While the demon wraith was unfazed, Brendan was the opposite—taken aback with his own back against a coil of metal.

Magic? What magic? What did Epik mean? Surely, Brendan thought, Epik couldn’t mean he had…

But it did add up—like a complex order of operations problem. Brendan had felt the magic when drawing the airship, and sometimes when thinking of tactics in battle. He’d even noticed similarities between himself and the old man Eddis, who put his ideas to paper before hashing them out.

But Brendan wasn’t trained, not like Epik. How was he supposed to come up with something right here on the spot?

“I… I don’t know how,” Brendan told the halfling.

“Sure you do.” Epik cast a spell at the beast. White light erupted from the tip of his wand, but the demon wraith was only pushed back a few feet. “Brendan, it’s no different now than it was before you knew. Think of a plan, and we’ll execute it.”

“It… it’s not that.” Brendan wasn’t sure how to say what he was trying to say. Ever since the battle on the airship, since losing part of his crew, well, the ideas weren’t really flowing like they used to.

“Are you blocked?” Millie asked.

“In a way,” Brendan answered.

“Yeah, well, so are we.” She leveled her wand at the beast.

She’s right, Brendan thought. There was no way out except through the entrance the demon wraith occupied. All that lay behind them were stores and stores of metal.

It truly was an end scene16—and mostly their end.

“It draws power from the heat,” Brendan started to work through the problem. “Okay,” he chewed his lip, “I think I’ve got something.”

“And that is?” Both their spells were having little effect. The beast was now able to push right through them. They only had seconds before it was on them.

“First, we need to trap him in the metal, make like a cage with it. Can you do that?”

“Even if we couldn’t,” Epik said through gritted teeth, “your magic might enable us to.” The halfling pointed his wand at the metal behind them, then he twirled the wand.

One by one, the bars flew up and welded themselves together around the beast. It yanked at the metal, intent on escape.

“And now?” Epik asked.

“Right…” Brendan moved his sword to his left hand and absentmindedly reached for the back of his head, pushed his fingers under the wool cap and into the thickness of his hair. “Well, he draws power from the heat. So we need the opposite—if you know what I mean.”

“The snow? Up on the mountain?” Millie pointed up.

Brendan nodded.

“I don’t know this spell,” she said.

“You don’t have to.” Epik’s own spell wore thin. The beast was working its way through the bars.

Millie pointed her wand to the sky, then squeezed her eyes closed, flinching as she cast the spell.

They heard what sounded like an avalanche.

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