He frowned, his mind racing. 'Strykssen manipulated Levrellian into attacking.' he said out loud, working through the ideas as they hit him, 'so he knew the town would be attacked. That's why he was waiting here, but he also needed that gauntlet, and we found it for him.'
'He'd have found it anyway.' Dietz pointed out. 'He had your map.'
'Maybe.' Alaric agreed, but he wasn't convinced. The original map had been less detailed than the one he'd drawn, supposedly from memory. Where had those extra details come from? Without them he couldn't have found the valley, which meant he wouldn't have found the gauntlet. Had someone helped him? If so, why?
Alaric didn't much like the idea of anyone else manipulating his thoughts or actions. He tried to tell himself it had simply been bad luck, but something in his gut told him that wasn't true.
Something was toying with him.
He shuddered as he remembered what the daemon had said down in the cultists' temple. 'Mine now.' it had said, meaning the gauntlet. 'Soon you will be, as well: body and soul.' Right before its borrowed body had been destroyed, the daemon had proclaimed, 'Soon I come for you.' Alaric shivered, suddenly covered in a cold sweat. He gulped desperately at the wine that Dietz had pulled from one of their saddlebags when they'd reached the ruins and found their horses still here.
The daemon wasn't gone. He knew that somehow. It had been banished, yes, but it was not destroyed. That meant it was still out there, and he had a feeling he would see it again. Their fates were intertwined, and he worried that, the next time they met, the daemon might be right. Next time it might claim him utterly, and he wasn't sure he would be able to resist it.
Índice
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
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