The Hero Seekers by Thomas Golden

Author:Thomas Golden [Golden, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798607023362
Published: 2020-05-28T22:00:00+00:00

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Deep inside the cave there was an opening, a great cavern whose ceiling was pocked with cracks and holes that provided natural ventilation. This kept the space from becoming overly dank or musty and allowed for the creation of a campfire, far from any scout on land or air that might be looking for a faerie who had mysteriously vanished from an elven dungeon the week before.

This was where Tork and William found themselves, sitting around a fire deep within a mountain cave, enjoying a vegetable stew, and sharing their experiences with Quel, who had clearly had adventures of his own.

“How did you know the bear was friendly?” Tork wanted to know.

“She has a name. It is Eliza. And my first clue to her personality came when she did not rip my arms off immediately.”

“Does she sleep back here too?” William wondered.

“Yes, well this is all hers. I’m the guest really. She is letting me stay for now. I am trying to talk her into coming back to Altodare with me and to possibly bring an army of bears with her. But she is hesitant not only to ask the others, but to leave here in the first place.” Quel explained.

All of this was nearly too much to handle. Tork and William both assumed, though neither ever said it out loud, that Quel had lost his marbles. That he had made friends with a bear was not the most far-fetched of it all, but to claim to have conversations with her, to give her a name and describe her personality as if she were any other person in the Farlands was more than a bit odd. Tork wondered if the altitude was the cause of it. William wondered how long it would be before the altitude did the same to them.

Neither William nor Tork knew how to ask Quel these questions or what words might help him to realize his own lunacy without hurting his feelings. Still, the longer they talked the clearer it was to them that something needed to be said. Finally, Tork could take it no more.

“Quel.” He interrupted his brother apprentice midway through a tale of how Eliza had hunted a pack of goblins and how they had tried to reason with her and win her to the side of Krakoss but how she protested that she would never follow such evil, nor would any of the bears.

“What is it?”

“Quel…it’s just you talk about her…about Eliza as if she is a person. You say you speak with her, that she told you her name…not that you named her, but that she told you…this all seems a bit…what I am trying to say is do you speak bear language or…I mean…” Try as he might, Tork could not find the words. Except for the bear talk, everything about Quel seemed normal, he could not bring himself to question the sanity of one he had so looked up to.

Quel leaned back and stared at his guests. It looked

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