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Things Only Whispered In The Shadows
Ch8. Mischief
Two days. Two whole days and the only things on my mind are Rune and Shadow, the emerald business seemed like my whole world two days ago but now? I thought I would be devastated at the loss of the emerald or have to beg to keep it, but no, Maxis just gave it back like it was no big deal and even brought another person into our lives, not that I am complaining or anything but come on seriously?
Concerning Rune, Fel is happy to have someone else to talk to and Talon will not stop staring at her every time he isn't trying to impress her with his gentleman's attitude. I think he brought her flowers this morning after going out the night before to find them, and about twenty minutes ago he said something about cleaning his room... This woman was throwing the balance of nature out of whack, I mean my brother cleaning his room? Unthinkable... He really likes her. I guess that just makes it easier to mess with him later.
On the other hand I dreamed of the nightmare world again, only this time my parents didn't turn into twisted rampaging monsters like the first time, no this time after defeating the other poor twisted souls I watched them die at Salem's hands without being able to do anything to stop him. Shadow had showed up again just in time to watch my pathetic display at a failed attempt to stop Salem from killing them. I was so ashamed that I had showed such weakness, I hadn't bothered to ask any questions. I just waited for the nightmare world to disappear again. Lucky for me it disappeared almost immediately after and I didn't have to speak with Shadow.
I had spent my day honing my swords and checking the rest of my gear. I needed to tighten the main strap on one of the swords but other than that my gear was in top shape.
Now I was board out of my mind and the day was only half over, question was would I do something productive with the rest of the day or would I cause some mischief?
Stupid question, Mischief it was.
I snuck up the stairs, making sure not to make a sound, and down the hall past my room and hid behind Talons open door. I pulled my emerald out and peered around the corner to see what he was up to and how I could make things difficult for him.
He was almost finished cleaning his room, I grinned. This was going to get interesting, I knew that I shouldn't but I just couldn't help myself. I focused on the pile of trophies on his bed that he had yet to put back on the shelf and gave a mental push. The pile wavered some but didn't tumble like I had intended. Frowning with the effort I gave a good mental shove, they leaned farther this time and then slowly toppled. Talon had been caught off guard, with a yelp of surprise he was buried in his own collection.
I was holding in a laugh and decided to take it a step further. As he was extracting himself from the pile I noticed the plate of food sitting on the bedside table, we all knew that we weren't supposed to have food upstairs. No point in wasting a perfectly good opportunity. I gave another mental shove almost equal to the one I had used on the pile, I would only have one shot on this one so no point in making the same mistake twice. The cake flew across the room making its target in record time with a satisfying splat.
I couldn't stop the laughter from bursting out, the look on my brother's face with cake sitting on his head was priceless. I was rolling on the floor I was laughing so hard, I couldn't get enough air to stand let alone run like I probably should have done.
I looked up just in time to roll to the side and stash the emerald. "Shit!" and somehow managed to dash out of the way as Talon chased me down the stairs and around the temple before passing Rune and Fel in a heated debate about what to make for supper tonight, they both had a passion for cooking but neither could ever agree on one thing. We were all glad that she was feeling better and getting used to living here.
I got that mischievous grin again as I stopped and reversed direction forcing Talon to avoid crashing headlong into them. I vanished from the room as he remembered that he still had cake on his head.
I made my way outside and down the mountain heading straight for my secret spot on one of the other peaks overlooking the edge of our territory, the edge of our haven.
Almost an hour later I was there, the one place I could look out over the realm of the tyrant and know that he was somewhere out there waiting for us to make one wrong move. Waiting for us to venture out into his domain like I waited for monsters within my own. This was my domain and that was his, it was so simple, so close.
But tonight something felt off... My instincts had been honed beyond normal limits in this primal wilderness, and something was wrong.
Something glinted on the horizon, then another, and then another. "Oh Crap..." I dropped down to a lower point on the mountain to get a closer look. The glints on the horizon were increasing in number and quickly. The sun still had about an hour before it began to set but it was low enough to make it difficult to see the exact number and nature of the glints.
The sun passed behind a cloud for a few seconds and I almost stopped breathing as I froze, from one horizon to the other the glints were thousands of soldiers. Thousands of Salem's solders heading straight for the temple.
I was ready to scream and run or rush in ad try to tear them to shreds all at the same time, but I knew better than that. I had to keep a cool head and think. I had been wrong, he wasn't waiting for us, not anymore. They were still far enough away and it was late enough in the day that they wouldn't be able to reach the temple for at least another day or two, so I had time, and there were enough of them that rushing in to wipe them out was not an option, on the other hand I could lay a few traps for them on my way back to warn the others.
"Holy shit. Salem's getting serious." I nearly jumped out of my quills as Talon spoke up.
"Where the Hell!" He had followed me up without my noticing, how he had done so was beyond me. "Never mind, we need to warn the others." I walked up to the peak again and leaned over the edge preparing to book it all the way back when Talon interrupted me again.
"How much damage do you think we can do on our way back?" I found myself smiling a lot lately, especially when Talon read my mind. Traps, lots of dangerous traps.
And that's it for chapter eight, I know this one was a bit short but the next ones will be longer. Hope you enjoyed it.
