The Sword of Fire by James Galloway

Author:James Galloway [Galloway, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Epic, Magic
Goodreads: 6749935
Published: 2011-12-26T00:01:52+00:00

To: Title EoF

Chapter 11

Tarrin wasn’t sure which was garnering more attention from the newcomers…him, Miranda, or the Pegasi.

Not that he cared. Having so many strangers around caused both him and Mist to all but withdraw from the group. They rode at the back of the column when it moved, to keep them all in sight, and always kept as many of them as possible in sight whenever they stopped. The two feral Were-cats seemed to become a single unit of wary surveillance, watching each other and helping each other keep all these potential threats under a watchful eye. But it was probably unfortunate that him and the other two Were-cats seemed quite interesting to this Skord and his band of soldiers, who seemed to want to ask endless questions. He learned almost immediately to direct all those questions to Kimmie, because Tarrin and Mist would have very little to do with him.

Again, though, it was Miranda that seemed to capture the attention of the others almost immediately, and not entirely positively. Her obvious inhuman appearance, so much more so than the Were-cats, again attrracted overwhelming attention, and Tarrin still hadn’t quite figured out why she was so much of an item of interest to these people. Only Skord didn’t seem to have any fear of Miranda, riding along with her the first day he’d joined them and politely but quite thoroughly trying to grill her for all kinds of information. Skord reminded Tarrin of Phandebrass, an inquisitive fellow with a sharp mind, but he also seemed quite tolerant of the alien nature of some of Lorak’s companions, more curious about them than afraid. There was also something of a thin, wispy aura around Skord that Tarrin found pleasant, something that his awakened divine senses could detect, something that was missing from Lorak and the others. He wasn’t quite sure what it was or what it meant, but Skord seemed quite agreeable to Tarrin in some ways, but Tarrin’s ferality wouldn’t allow him to explore this agreeable quality.

For most of them, though, it was the Pegasi that seemed to most solidly take their attention. They gawked at the winged horses almost all of that first day, which unsettled them just a little bit, making them a bit jumpy. They’d already been restless from being forced to stay on the ground for so long, so Tarrin ordered that all the Pegasi be taken on a “recreational flight” the morning after Skord’s group joined them. Perhaps that had been what caused it, he supposed, for the guardsmen were infatuated with them since that morning. Ulger still seemed very uncomfortable flying on the back of his mount, which his mount seemed to take as somewhat offensive. The Pegasus stomped on his foot after they landed and dismounted, then headbutted him in the back several times as they walked the mounts back to the area where they were keeping all the horses.

“Now listen, you feather-headed mutt, don’t be getting me mad,” Ulger warned the Pegasus as they reached the edge of the pasture where the horses were contentedly grazing.

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