The Remedy (Eyes of E'veria) by Chase Serena

Author:Chase, Serena [Chase, Serena]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Candent Gate
Published: 2013-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

The first thing that hit me as I passed into the farmyard was the unexpectedly strong smell of animal urine, so pungent where I stood that it nearly overpowered the putrid smoke of two dying fires that had once presumably been a house and a barn. The second thing to hit me was . . . Gerrias.

He shoved me from the side as another high-pitched scream pierced the air, but this one was closer, and at this range, even I couldn’t mistake it for human. I flew through the air and landed against a tree with a grunt, righting myself just in time to see the flash of Erielle’s dagger as it spun through the air and into the side of a writhing length of fur, attached by its teeth to Gerrias’s sword arm.

The shock of the weapon’s hit caused the creature to loosen its hold. Gerrias had nearly pulled his arm free when it emitted a screeching growl and latched on again. Even though its size was more like that of a herding dog than the beast we’d met before, its shape, face, and ferocity left no question that it was, in fact, a wolfcat. A young one, to be sure, but its teeth, sunk into my knight’s flesh, were clearly large enough to kill.

“No!” I screamed. Even with Erielle’s dagger sticking out of its side, its strength was frightening and feral. Determined.

Gerrias slammed his left fist between the creature’s eyes and it released its hold, dropping to the ground.

The small beast let out another cry, but it cut off abruptly when Kinley’s sword sliced through its neck.

Blood wept through the punctures in the arm of Gerrias’s tunic and he fell to one knee.

Dyfnel rushed to his side.

My shaking hand lifted to cover my trembling lips.

It should be me on the ground, grimacing in pain, I thought. Me, bleeding.

Had I but listened to Julien, or to Erielle, Kinley, or Gerrias himself, the knight would not be injured. Nay! My pride reached farther back than that. Had I been able to set it aside in favor of my knights’ wisdom, Gerrias would not only be unhurt, but he would still have his horse. We would not have detoured from our quest for the Remedy, rather than consuming time here and putting more E’verians at risk with every moment we delayed.

Regret twisted my gut and stretched its tentacles into my heart. Nearly every member of our group had spoken up against our current action, but I had overruled them all. Me. The one who could not even wield a sword. Had I listened to any one of them rather than the self-important voice of my own foolish pride—had I allowed myself to be guided by the wisdom of my friends rather than the misguided sense of duty that marked me as a fool—

But Gerrias had taken the wound meant for me. Gerrias had put himself in the direct path of that wolfcat to protect his unworthy, bullheaded Ryn.

“Forgive me, Gerrias,” I whispered, though too quietly for him to hear.

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