Of Dawn And Darkness (The Elder Empire: Sea book 2)
“Almost too easily. He distrusted any plan that wasn’t full of danger and fraught with unnecessary risk.
She manufactured explosives so quickly and cheaply that Foster had become suspicious. He knew something about alchemy from somewhere in that past he refused to discuss, and he complained loudly that there was no way she could put together a functional charge without...a list of ingredients that Calder never bothered to remember.
So they’d tested one. Each of Petal’s charges was a rectangular ...wooden container the size of a cigar box. In fact, they were cigar boxes, filled with alchemical solutions in several independent chambers and sealed with resin. Andel lit the fuse and launched the charge with the force of his arm, aiming at the whale-sized shadow that had been following them for days. The creature occasionally poked an eye-stalk out of the water to take a look at them, and Calder had gotten sick of it. He’d originally planned to let the Lyathatan deal with it.
When the charge flew straight for the underwater shadow and detonated, sending a plume of water up like a missed cannon-shot, Calder knew he wouldn’t have to bother his pet Elderspawn.MoreLess
She manufactured explosives so quickly and cheaply that Foster had become suspicious. He knew something about alchemy from somewhere in that past he refused to discuss, and he complained loudly that there was no way she could put together a functional charge without...a list of ingredients that Calder never bothered to remember.
So they’d tested one. Each of Petal’s charges was a rectangular ...wooden container the size of a cigar box. In fact, they were cigar boxes, filled with alchemical solutions in several independent chambers and sealed with resin. Andel lit the fuse and launched the charge with the force of his arm, aiming at the whale-sized shadow that had been following them for days. The creature occasionally poked an eye-stalk out of the water to take a look at them, and Calder had gotten sick of it. He’d originally planned to let the Lyathatan deal with it.
When the charge flew straight for the underwater shadow and detonated, sending a plume of water up like a missed cannon-shot, Calder knew he wouldn’t have to bother his pet Elderspawn.MoreLess
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