The Ogre Apprentice
“The plains were an ugly sight. In the spring, the area would be blanketed in quickly growing green grasses, but the weight of winter snows had crushed the normally waist-high grass. Now that the snow was gone, the plains were a sodden mess, their hillocks and valleys now looked more like a marsh of brown clumpy islands between temporary shallow ponds.
Fist stomped through ankle-high water and sucking mud with a growing scowl. Bettie’s runework would keep the mud from destroying his boots, but h...is feet were already getting wet. The ogre troop would have at least two full days of travel through the plains and he could already tell that it would be a rough slog.
They found Locksher in a dry patch at the top of one of the smaller hillocks. From the traces of red and gold magic left behind in the grass, Fist could tell that the wizard had a hand in drying the area.
Locksher was sitting cross legged with his back to them and the chest was sitting open next to him. He had that ancient leather-bound book open in his lap and was alternating between reading it and monitoring something on the ground in front of him.MoreLess
Fist stomped through ankle-high water and sucking mud with a growing scowl. Bettie’s runework would keep the mud from destroying his boots, but h...is feet were already getting wet. The ogre troop would have at least two full days of travel through the plains and he could already tell that it would be a rough slog.
They found Locksher in a dry patch at the top of one of the smaller hillocks. From the traces of red and gold magic left behind in the grass, Fist could tell that the wizard had a hand in drying the area.
Locksher was sitting cross legged with his back to them and the chest was sitting open next to him. He had that ancient leather-bound book open in his lap and was alternating between reading it and monitoring something on the ground in front of him.MoreLess
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