Swords with Souls
A Medieval Fantasy Fiction Story
(Adult Content)
By Dan Watt
(Author of the BARD series)
(Author of the Plagueborn series)
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He dives much deeper and sees the shadowy ruins of stone and mortar buildings. Whatever wood they once contained must have rotted away. Something glitters up from a mess of iron bindings. He still feels he can hold his breath longer so he dives down and carefully reaches through the bindings and mud for the object. It’s an amethyst ring with a gold band too large for him to wear. He doubts even the giant, Jedreck has a finger thick enough to put it on.
He slips the ring loosely over his left index finger and curls the finger to keep a hold of the it. There’s something yellowish, like bone revealed from removing the ring. He kicks his legs to stay down as he wraps his right hand around it. A massive skeleton hand with a missing ring finger comes out. He feels a shiver and drops it. Swimming a little further on he sees more rusting iron bindings. He brushes them aside. A skull with a jeweled gold crown peers back at him. The skull must be as large as his upper torso. Beside the corpse, have buried in mud, is a thick leather tome. He’s shocked that it looks undamaged. He grabs a hold of it.
The skeletal hand and skull make him feel like he’s running out of air. With the tome and ring in his left hand he kicks rapidly to get away from the ruins.
As soon his head breaks the surface of the river, he no longer sees the two beams of light. He crawls onto the shore and sits on the bank, staring intently into the water. He doesn’t see any sign of the glowing fish, eels or other sea creatures that created the light.
Back in his home he places the tomb on his eating table and the overly large ring on top. From a string hanging on the opposite wall of his bed, he grabs a piece of dried and salted bream. As he munches on the bream, he realizes he’ll have to buy more sea salt from traveling gypsies or request soldiers to ask their comrades to bring some with them when they pick up the new swords. He feels reenergized and a need to go back into the river.
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