The Hybrid Series | Book 3.5 | Ascension [A Lady Sarah Novella] by Stead Nick

Author:Stead, Nick [Stead, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror | Werewolves
Publisher: Twisted Fate Publishing
Published: 2020-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Ulfarr led her away from the streets of humanity and deep into the wilderness. Round the beauty of the fjords they ran and through great valleys carved by ice. They passed over mountains and traversed acres of forest, finally coming to a stop on a hillside. The entrance to a tomb gaped black and foreboding between the trees.

“What is this place?” Lady Sarah asked.

“There was once a human colony near here. This was built to be the resting place for their dead, a row of burial chambers meant to house the greatest of their fallen. But their dead were not at rest and as the years passed the living were driven into madness. They abandoned the area long ago and fled to the coast, never to return. It belongs to us now.”

Somewhere in the distance a wolf howled. Ulfarr’s eyes turned hard and cold and all traces of humour fell to the ferocity of a hatred she did not yet understand. Lady Sarah might have asked him about it if wariness hadn’t held her back, and he said nothing to shed light on his feelings. Instead she scanned the untamed land around her, thinking that last statement he’d made was debatable. With the blanket of grass growing over its arched entrance and its broken stone slab lying in pieces half buried in the dirt, the tomb looked to have been reclaimed by nature. But as she followed Ulfarr Wolf’s Bane into the darkness, his words rang true. The unnatural lurked within.

She stepped into a large cavern lit by the glow of candles, each one placed a few feet away from the walls so that they formed an inner circle round the room. The burial chambers Ulfarr had just spoken of looked to have been combined into one big tomb. And what better place for a gathering of undead? Spectral figures looked perfectly at home there, as did the withered, skeletal creatures she would soon learn were ghouls, and the reanimated corpses of zombies who had broken free of their necromancer’s control. Even the two other vampires fit in with their surroundings, their tattered clothing not quite in keeping with the style of sixteenth century Europe and their skin pale.

One vampire was male, his woollen clothes closer to the simple style worn by the peasants of her time. He still wore a tunic and on his legs he had trousers rather than hose, the garment a little too plain and baggy to fit with the current fashion. The sword at his side marked him as a warrior, though the design of it was not one she recognised.

The other was female. Her dress was similarly plain and akin to the clothing worn by the working classes of Lady Sarah’s time. Only the brooches fastening the shoulder straps would have looked out of place in Lady Sarah’s old castle home, and the axe laid across the woman’s lap. Its blade was dulled by the blood of long dead enemies, its handle worn from decades of use.

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