Ultimate Mage by Simon Archer

Author:Simon Archer [Archer, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-04T22:00:00+00:00

14

The inn only had two rooms for us, one for Bernsten and me and the other for Nadeine and Marinka, and the beds were rough and uncomfortable. But I slept well anyway, the warmth of the previous night’s drinks filling my belly.

I awoke from the sound of Bernsten’s snoring and the light creeping in the crack between the window and its shade. I crawled out of bed, which was more complicated than it seemed due to the deep indentation in the center of the mattress, and pulled on my robes. I walked over to Bernsten and shook him awake. He grunted and tried to bat my hand away at first, but he woke up eventually and crawled out of bed himself, stretching his arms out and yawning.

“Well, Leo Hayden,” he said through his yawn. “Are you ready to journey into the forest?”

“As I’ll ever be, I suppose,” I said, yawning myself.

Nadeine and Marinka were already waiting for us downstairs with Nida. She served us a quick breakfast of fried eggs, toast, and leftover smoked fish. I followed the others’ leads and piled the fish and eggs together on top of the toast. This was a new combination for me, but I enjoyed it and resolved to try it again sometime when we got back.

Nida’s grandson led us outside to the stables to get our miniature horses. The stables were small, and Bill seemed pleased to be rid of them, stretching out his legs and huffing at me.

“Alright, alright, no more stables for a while,” I said, petting his long nose and laughing. He pushed his muzzle up and rubbed my neck, tickling me.

We mounted our horses and rode off towards the forest, waving goodbye to Nida as we left. Pretty soon, the beaten path through the grass we’d been following since we left the kingdom disappeared, and we trudged on through the grass towards the trees. The grass itself grew longer and wilder the further out we traveled, reaching up past Bill’s knees.

The forest began rather abruptly. One second we were in prairieland, and the next, I couldn’t even see the sky through all the trees. For some reason, I had expected the forest to be some kind of dark, foreboding place full of scary sounds and weird smells. But it wasn’t really like that at all. The forest was, in its own way, just as bright and fantastical as the rest of Eviorah had proven itself to be, albeit very different.

The trees were tall, way taller than I could ever have imagined, and they were colored a deep forest green color that was just as bright as the trees in the kingdom, just darker. The trees themselves were a healthy dark brown color, and the branches shot out in all directions at all heights, making for an interesting maneuvering experience as we traveled. I could hear birds singing and chirping off in the distance, and the forest was bustling with life. Rabbits darted out in front of us, foxes peeped out from beside the path, and owls looked down on us from holes in the trees.

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