The Fantasy MEGAPACK ® by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: fantasy, sword and sorcery, magic, short stories, dark fantasy
ISBN: 9781479407606
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2015-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

From the foot of the platform, Riska saw Dath’s clawed hand rake Zostris’ face, putting out the fanatic glitter of his eyes. Other priests were diving outward, accepting the mercies of the hostile crowd. Galk gibbered and danced about like an unnerved animal, and before Riska could cry out a warning, he leaped onto Dath’s back. For a moment the alien staggered forward under his weight, then a long furred arm reached around to dislodge him, and Dath held his struggling body with the two small hands while battering him with the large ones.

Mewling and blinded, Zostris teetered on the edge of the platform and fell into a pile of burning debris, screaming as he curled and blackened, a maggot in a candle flame. The smell of his burning drove back the crowd.

As Dath dropped Galk’s inert body onto the planking, Riska saw more of Morrien’s soldiers appearing along the top of the wall. She scrambled halfway up the ladder to shout a warning and Dath leapt lithely off the platform as arrows thunked into the wood behind him, “I thought those were the ones we came to rescue,” said Dath in utter innocence.

“Some people lack gratitude,” she said wryly.

She saw one she thought to be Morrien atop the wall, but smoke made her vision blur. A knot of men had gathered, babbling and pointing toward Dath. “Let’s get out of here, quickly.” She neglected to mention cages or worse fates for those as different as the spider-being, but perhaps they were both aware of them.

“You don’t want to seek your own kind now that you’ve completed your mission?” The leathery mask of Dath’s face was unreadable, but as in an unconscious gesture, one of the smaller, black-scaled hands was extended, and Riska, now becoming aware of her own exhaustion, reached out to grasp it. Together they fled through the crowd.

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