Von Carstein 3 - Dominion by Warhammer

Author:Warhammer [Warhammer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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“Tell me anyway.”

Kallad walked over to the barrel that collected rainwater as it ran from the wood

shack’s guttering, and sank his head and shoulders into it. He came up spluttering,

gasped three times, drawing deep breaths, and plunged his head back into the water

again.

He was under for a long time.

Allie counted to twenty before Kallad came up for air.

“More of the same, really: three reports of kidnappings in the last week, lots of

sightings of the black coaches, a few rumbles of the sleeping sickness striking some

of the younger girls up and down the border. Father’s been hellishly busy with the

border wardens. He gave me a message for you: the wardens have killed three more

wolves, and each one went the same way as the last one he told you about. He said

you’d know what that meant.”

Of course, he did—wolves that died as men.

“Keep talking, lad,” Kallad said, hefting his axe and burying it in a chunk of

wood. He split it in half on the chopping block, and then in half again, and tossed the

quarters onto the grass up against the side of the wood shack. He grabbed another

piece, and split it, rolling his shoulders afterwards. It was good to feel the blood

circulating again. He felt stronger than he had in months.

“Father’s gone out hunting with Jared and Klein. Why does it have to be this

way?”

That was something that Kallad didn’t have an answer for. He wasn’t

comfortable trying to pass off evil as some part of nature, and wasn’t any more at

peace with the idea that the world needed evil to attain balance within itself. Telling

Allie that good men and women died just because, well that was no answer at all. So

he let his silence answer for him.

“Father says that ignorance breeds fear,” the boy said after a while.

“He’s right, but in this case, even knowing your enemy won’t help lessen the

fear. The more you know about the monster, the more frightening it becomes. These

things are like parasites that crawl into the mattress of your bed at night and hide

there quietly, coming out when you are asleep, to feed on you, bloating themselves

on your blood. They need you to survive, and yet their very nature is obsessed with

destruction. They are their own worst enemies, but it’s still right to be frightened of

them. Let the fear give you strength, but don’t allow it to overwhelm you. That’s the

trick.”

Kallad swung his axe again, slamming it into the log on the chopping block and

splitting it clean in two. With each stroke his determination to heal intensified. The

monsters could not be left to ravage the countryside. Good people were dying. They

didn’t deserve to disappear into the bowels of Drakenhof to feed the vampire’s

bloody hunger.

He wiped off his sweat, and planted the double-headed axe at his feet.

“Come on, boy. It’s time I said my goodbyes to some old friends. I’ve put it off

long enough.”

Allie du Bek hopped down from his perch and skipped towards the trees. He

waved for Kallad to follow.

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