Wurm War by Christopher Golden;Thomas E Sniegoski

Author:Christopher Golden;Thomas E Sniegoski
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Magic, Action & Adventure, Fantasy fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Philosophy, Fantasy & Magic, Fiction, Fantasy, Good & Evil, Military & Wars, Historical, Boys & Men, General, Good and evil
ISBN: 9780689866647
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2005-08-30T05:00:00+00:00

The giant crossed his arms. “His courage is his beauty, boy, as I’m sure you know. And there is beauty in the skills of the smiths who crafted the armor and weapons they now wear. I only wish we had enough to outfit thousands of mages instead of dozens.”

The humor of a moment before had departed and a grim shadow settled on them there in the carriage. Telford and his workers had been honored to ride in a sky carriage as part of the Legion Nocturne’s regiment. Particularly as Romulus’s guild almost never used sky carriages, preferring the massive horses that they bred, patrolling the region around their mountain fortress on the backs of those grand animals. Timothy had half expected them all to go south on horseback, but Romulus had instead ordered the sky carriages brought from the Legion Nocturne’s regional office in Arcanum. They were swifter, and speed was of the essence now.

Timothy thought again of the miners and smiths. Most of the armor and weapons they’d made were back in Arcanum, distributed by order of the Voice to the most accomplished combat mages in the city and to several grandmasters who were going to be at the forefront of any city defense. What armor those workers had worn back from Tora’nah, had been freely given, leaving Telford and his people far more vulnerable, yet none of them had complained. They understood what was at stake. All that mattered was defeating the Wurm horde.

Yet still they had been determined to come along, to fight alongside combat mages. To do what they could. They had more than earned Lord Romulus’s respect.

The panel that separated the interior of the sky carriage from the navigator’s high seat slid back, and through it Timothy saw the rich blue of Caiaphas’s veil.

“Grandmaster Romulus, Twilight is just ahead,” said the navigation mage. “Shall I descend?”

“No,” Romulus replied, and Timothy thought he saw the giant’s eyes narrow inside the darkness of his helmet. “Fly high above, make a single pass to be sure all is well, and then drop us right in front of the gates.”

Caiaphas nodded. His voice was grave. “Very well.” Then he slid the panel closed.

Timothy frowned. “We’re going to drop from this height?”

Perched on the back of a seat, Edgar ruffled his feathers, tilted his head and stared at Romulus in his armor of metal and leather. But the bird said nothing.

“Caiaphas is capable of it,” the Nocturne Grandmaster said. They all are. They must be. We don’t know if the Wurm are using cunning and stealth or simply rampaging across Sunderland. If any of them are hiding in the forests on my game preserve, we do not want to be ambushed.”

Timothy nodded and turned his attention once more out the window. Verlis and Cythra had flown close to their carriage, and 32Caiaphas must have signaled to them, for he saw Verlis make a gesture—sort of a salute—and then the Wurm all began to drop back, beating their wings and climbing higher, safeguarding the mages’ approach toward Twilight.

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