The Riven Gate by Remi Black

Author:Remi Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy, Dark Fae, elemental power, sword and sorcery, amnesia
Publisher: M.A. Lee
Published: 2022-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

~ 7 ~ Distant Explosions

“Captain!”

At the shout, Morcain turned and leaped back to his camp, Brax on his heels. Desora followed.

Both camps were up and moving, preparing to fight.

Morcain and Brax made for the overlook, offering the best view of Trantorr Mountain.

Another flash lit the night sky, framed at the overlook. The sentry stepped aside as they craned to see.

Desora pushed her way to the front. Jostled by someone also eager to look, she staggered. A muscled arm hooked around her chest and yanked her back.

“Careful,” Brax snapped. “She’s the last person to send over the edge.”

“Fire on Trantorr.” A rider pointed off to the left.

Flames licked around a sandstone overhang and merrily burned nearby bushes.

“Another one.” A second cave mouth glowed with fire, dying down as it consumed a lesser fuel inside the cave.

“My lord Horst,” Morcain gloated. “That’s where he went.”

“To the Caves? Why didn’t you tell us?” Desora demanded. She pushed at Brax’s arm, but he didn’t release her.

The captain knight shrugged a shoulder, very much like his Kyrgy lord. “Look. Dawn comes.”

The eastern sky had a deep purplish hue rather than the velvety black overhead. Where the Weorth Mountains clawed at the sky, the gold of approaching sunrise edged the jagged mountain crests.

Brax guided her back, letting others take their place. When they were through the crowding men and women, he released her. A glint of steel armor revealed one of his men beside them. “Mannon, why don’t you start the jahvi? We’ll get a couple of cups in before we ride.”

Anticipating jahvi cheered her, and the loss of two hours’ sleep no longer seemed so horrid.

Another flash, followed by a boom. The men at the overlook celebrated.

Challoch loomed close. “I’m after supplies to break our fast. Ivhart! Come with me.”

The ranger dragged his feet as he came from the overlook, looking back at another flash and boom.

Desora crouched beside Brax as he struck flint for sparks then started a fire, breaking their cold camp. “Is Horst destroying the caves? Or fighting the trolls?”

“Doesn’t matter. The ones who escape will run this way. Stay ready.”

She nodded although he hadn’t looked her way to see it. She ventured a light touch to his shoulder. He stopped feeding the fire. He still didn’t look around, just stared at the growing flames.

He looked unbendable, resolute. Staunch determination. Reliable strength. She had always depended upon those, could always depend on them. How she was so certain of past and future evaded her ken, but this man—.

“Thank you, back there.” She squeezed his shoulder lightly. “I lost my balance.”

The explosive flashes continued to flicker; the booms rolled out. He reached up and covered her hand. A brief touch, his fight-roughened skin to hers, a gentle press that had none of the strength that had nearly crushed the air from her when she pitched forward. Then he picked up a branch, broke it, and fed it to the greedy flames. “I didn’t hear anything the sprite queen said. It was all buzzing to me.

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