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I’M DARIN BALES, and I’m looking for my mam.
Never knew my da. He died before I was born. Savin’ the world, if you
believe I’m telling honest word. Ask around if you like. Walk a hundred
miles, and folk will all tell you Arlen Bales went down to the Core and
sacrificed himself. How his last act was seen in the sky in the form of great,
blazing wards that turned the tide of the demon war, burning the corelings
to ash. Even those with him at the time say it. My bloodfather. My mam.
I was there, too, in a manner of speaking. Still in Mam’s belly when he
died, but she says I spilled out onto the stone floor of the demon hive just
minutes later.
Missed my only chance to meet my da by minutes. Might as well be
years. Goin’ back a minute, a single second, ent any easier.
I’m starting to think folk were wrong, though. World still needs savin’.
And if they’re wrong about that part, why not the other? My aunt Leesha is
a fortune teller. She cast her demonbones in my blood, and there was magic
about the throw, to be sure. Her words have replayed in my mind so many
times they’ve become part of me.
The father waits below in darkness for his progeny to return.
Might mean other things. Ent such a fool I’d trust a prophecy to say
everything it seems to. But it ent crazy to wonder if something of my da is
still down there, stuck halfway to the Core, like a cork in a bottle.
Is it?
But while my da might be alive, I know my mam is. And I know the thing
that’s got her is trying to fatten her up like a choice pig for a wedding feast.
Din’t know my da growin’ up. Saw other boys with theirs and knew I
was missin’ something, but it’s hard to really miss someone you’ve never
met.
Mam was the one who was always there for me. Who fed me and taught
me and kept me safe. Mam, who felt strong as the sun.
Now she’s gone. Taken. And I’m left to care for myself, best I can. It’s
good I got help, because I don’t think I could do it alone. Since my first
born day, folk have been trying to see something of Mam and Da in me, and
they always go away disappointed.
And it ent just myself I need to take care of. All those years Mam looked
out for me, what kind of son would I be if I din’t come after her? Even if it
means walking into the lair of a creature the Jongleurs have a dozen names
for, each scarier than the last. The demon king. The Father of Evil.
Alagai Ka. He has some plan to hatch a new hive queen, and if he does
…
What did Da even die for, if I let Alagai Ka bring it all back? If I let him
feed Mam to a hatchling queen and repopulate the hive with a new
generation of demons, just when folk were startin’ to have a taste of what
life could be without ’em?
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