Try Not to Die: In the Wizard's Tower by Mark Tullius

Author:Mark Tullius [Tullius, Mark & Ricci, Michael Sage]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-10T22:00:00+00:00

Orky. I aint never seen one before. Pig noses and big green ears. Massive bodies and arms, how strong them Orkys is. How much they hate civilization. How they want to drown the world in fire and blood.

Two giant tusks stick out of the monster’s face, and a huge fist is banging itself against its own head and it is roaring still, but there is my first surprise.

My medallion pulses against my chest and just like that I make out a word instead of just animal cries.

“Nooooo,” the Orky is shouting.

Orky shouts, they aren’t just dumb noises. Orks have language. How come nobody never told me that?

The monster steps back away from the dark lump on the ground, quieting a little.

My eyes adjusted to firelight again can make out that lump on the floor. Another Orky. Bigger than the one standing over it. Its arms wrapped around another figure, a smaller crushed armored figure and a broken bow on the floor next to them. Arrows sticking out from all over the dead Orky on the ground. Yeah, that big Orky on the ground is dead, and whatever that body next to it is dead too.

I have a tiny thought in my shocked brain, a quick whisper of a thought, saying Please don’t be Sharra, which surprises me cuz I don’t even know if this Sharra is gonna be a friend or not, and that’s assuming I even get to meet her in here, or if she hasn’t found a way out already. And I realize too that somehow, I have gotten it in my head that Sharra is gonna be really important to me. And with that thought, the lucky medallion flashes warm again for a second.

Musta been sumthin about that magic that the living Orky could feel or see, cuz allova sudden that Orky’s head snaps up to right where Imma standing. It sees me there and starts to scream again but Imma glad the medallion could do its translation thing. See, the sound would have just sounded like another animal scream. But the words it really is come out so surprising to me.

“Momma what do I do” it said. And I think for a second, this big monster Orky is just a kid. But that unsure, or even scared, feeling it’s having I guess doesn’t last too long cuz it is moving its long legs and rearing its head back to make a true animal screaming grunting howl.

Kid or no, that Orky is huge. And mad. And Imma tell ya, I think Imma gonna pee myself again.

Not sure what to do, Imma on the fence here. I can protect myself, make that fear feeling in my belly come up through my eyes again, like I did with them rats while I was trying to save Stitchie, like I did with Samael and I sure taught him a good lesson. But there’s something else in my belly besides fear now. I feel for the Orky. That big old monster cried for his Momma who is fresh dead by the looks of her after some big kinda fight.

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