Swords with Souls
A Medieval Fantasy Fiction Story
(Adult Content)
By Dan Watt
(Author of the Children of the Myth Machine series)
(Author of the Plagueborn series)
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He moves away from the window. Now that he’s inside, he must hurry. The desiccation of the tops of his ears has one disadvantage. Sounds from above are not as clear as they used to be unless he lifts his head. He steps silently across the hardwood floor to the door. There’s no sound of Propers nearby. He pushes open the door and peers in. To the left of him is a stairway leading up. As he climbs the stairs he hears voices. Halfway up he listens.
“That murderous Sir Ganbold,” a man says with a hiss. “I thought he fled.”
“This is treachery,” another man says. “Sir Olaf is right to send messengers to the giants, dwarves, and quarter moons. They owe it to us to help defeat that betrayer.”
“And we welcomed him and his family,” another man says.
“Imagine how many of Ganbold’s men one arrow from a giant’s bow can gut,” a man with a snarly voice says and laughs.
“Dwarves will cut out their groins while quarter moons will slip into their campsite at night and slit their throats.”
“I also heard Sir Olaf wants to hurry diverting the Tyne River so the new palace will be surrounded by a moat.”
He realizes these are castle staff with obviously minimal military training. But they understand the skills of each of the races. A giant with a bow or spear had distance advantage. The dwarves they talk about are the ones that came from the mating of giants and dwarves. Those ones, with their hardy shields would be near indestructible. And his people, the quarter moons, as the Propers call them, are renown for stealth.
The diversion of the Tyne River has been a concern for the Sifs ever since the now deceased king, King Leopold Khalifa, started construction on a new palace. He wonders how many faie will be affected by this diversion. The wildlife might survive by finding new homes elsewhere but many faie he had heard, were attached lifelong to an area of land or water.
He lets out a breath. His people are renown for showing outward disdain towards the giants and dwarves along with the Propers. The Propers believe that the Sifs are arrogant and miserly. They capture any of his people found outside what the Propers call the Kingdom of Snowdropbogbean. The more vicious soldiers often rape the females and cut off the toes of the males.
His own people don’t believe the Sifs are limited to any one land. But his people are naturally full of hubris. That could make for a dangerous situation. But what he’s most interested in, and wonders the most about, is who the castle men aren’t talking about. Sir Olaf is calling upon the giants, dwarves, and Sifs, but not Sir Olafès own northern countrymen.
He needs to get to his own people and tell the elders that an alliance is excepted between the Sifs and Sir Ganbold’s people. And that negotiating a treaty with the giants and dwarves would be wise.
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