Swords with Souls
A Medieval Fantasy Fiction Story
(Adult Content)
By Dan Watt
(Author of the BARD series)
(Author of the Plagueborn series)
King of the Giants and Dwarves
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She tries not to gag from the terrible smell emitting from his body. Though that horrible scent helps her from shivering with fear and fleeing. Jedreck gently pushes her upper back and she slips in between a male giant and a female dwarf.
The king’s head turns towards her. A macabre grin appears between the wheezing breaths. “My brothers and sisters used to dress up as bears to steal children like you out of second-storey windows; where the parents thought their young ones would be safe.” His voice is weak but determined and nearly too deep for her to understand. His smile lingers before he continues between wheezes. “Delicious.”
“His memory is going,” one of the giant daughters says.
“That was before I fell in love with one of you,” the king continues in a softer voice. “Evelyn stole my heart first. So lithe and fragile in appearance yet so willful and tall for your kind.” He gasps and a dwarven daughter gives him liquid from a jug. “‘No more eating us Propers, my love, she demanded.’ I was blinded by my love for her. My brothers and sisters were unhappy and took to hunting dwarves and other tiny peoples. Then, when Evelyn grew old and passed, I fell for Nina, a dwarven maiden with wide hips and such a beautiful smile and joyous laugh.”
She stares dumbfounded as the king’s malevolent eyes grow soft and the pale-yellow yokes grow red with the trickles of tears. Jedreck passes her a large leather bag and a quartz stone with iron inside. She pinches the bottom of the bag and covers the king’s mouth with the opening of the bag.
He gives one final exhale into the bag. She pinches it closed. “We need some blood,” she says.
She is surprised when Jedreck fumbles with a glass flask and knife with ruins on its blade. One of the dwarven daughters takes both from him. She cuts her father’s wrist and holds the flask so it can gather the warm blood.
Lara realizes they were all told about the procedure before she arrived. Would they have tried without her? And would they have succeeded? Or did her faie blood make her the only one who could perform the procedure?
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