A Hunt of Blood & Iron by Cara Nox EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Cara Nox
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GREY
“Nothing comes without sacrifice.”
The words drifted up to the loft, shackling themselves around Grey’s
wrists, lightly stained with charcoal. He ran the stick over the paper,
shadows dancing with each movement in the orange glow of the setting sun.
Flittering, torn sheets of off-black fabric hung over his little nest, framing
crumbling buildings slowly sparking to life with candlelight.
“We know,” whined one of the children clustered past the dilapidated
railing.
“What’s that got to do with the story?” piped up another.
The husky chuckle of the older man soothingly clung to Grey’s soul,
like smoke on his clothes from the clove cigars the man enjoyed every
morning. “Tonight’s tale begins with a brave knight from all the way back
when the world first fell to the Wild Hunt.”
Silence descended, save the creak of the older man’s wooden chair and
Grey’s pale hand dragging against parchment. Soft blades of grass climbed
upward with each flick, filling in his imaginary landscape of someplace far
from here where midnight hues wrapped themselves around stones and
trees circling this clearing—the one from his dreams.
“She was a fledgling macharomancer—”
Grey quietly scoffed, shaking his head while he began smudging the
shadows of his work. A bitter tang welled up from the back of his throat,
and he swiped away a phantom twitch under his left eye.
“And her lover was a skilled austromancer princess, trapped by her own
father, the king of their young little kingdom. Every few nights, the princess
would travel via dreams to her dear knight, but every time she did this, it
would leave her body weak and unrested. Eventually, the king became
suspicious, and called upon his captive sciomancer to force his daughter
into a deep, dreamless sleep.”
A little hand shot up, and Grey peered over the railing again.
“Yes?”
“Don’t sciomancers feed on dreams?”
“Ah, that they do.” He wagged a finger at the boy, a twinkle in his dark
eyes. “And that was the king’s first mistake. He didn’t yet understand the
true scope of his enemies’ powers, so he sat back, pleased he had solved his
problem without realizing that he’d given his captive a wellspring of it.”
Grey wiped his hand on the knee of his pants and stood, wandering over
to the large, metal lever. The crisscrossing bulbs drooping from the ceiling
brightened in the wake of the fading sun, but the children were still glued to
their storyteller like they were every night. He leaned over the railing,
shaggy black hair dipping over his eyes as he let himself fall into the story
as well.
“The princess, realizing something had gone horribly wrong, had
suspected that the captive had been made to consume her dreams, and snuck
down to the dungeons to bargain with him. She said that if he could allow
her half of a night’s dream, he could have the other, and then they could
both benefit. He agreed, and they plotted their escape with the aid of the
knight.
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