The Summoning
The Summoning
“The sight of so many juicy birds brought the water to Aubric Nihmedu’s mouthas it did to the mouths of all the Noble Blades and Lordly Wands tucked into their spider holes across the sun-baked hillside. For a nearly tenday now, the Swords of Evereska had subsisted on crisped lizard and spell-baked mouse, forsaking even cacti and wolfroot for fear that the phaerimm would notice any plant-gathering. It was hardly the ordeal proud aristocrats envisioned when they joined the Swords of Evereska, bu...t no one complained. Since forsaking open combat for ambushes and surprise attacks, they had cut their losses from staggering to merely heavy, and they had killed more than twenty phaerimm. By Aubric’s estimate, the Swords would need only ten lives apiece to eradicate the remaining phaerimm from the Shaeradim.
Two hundred paces ahead of the quail, a pair of moon foxes darted across a stream, herding four young kits along between them. There was something out there, slinking into the eastern end of the Blazevalethe broad, sand-scoured valley that separated the Sharaedim from the Greycloak Hills to the north.MoreLess
Two hundred paces ahead of the quail, a pair of moon foxes darted across a stream, herding four young kits along between them. There was something out there, slinking into the eastern end of the Blazevalethe broad, sand-scoured valley that separated the Sharaedim from the Greycloak Hills to the north.MoreLess
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