The Demon Cycle Books 1-3 and Novellas: The Painted Man, The Desert Spear, The Daylight War plus The Great Bazaar and Brayan’s Gold and Messenger’s Legacy

Name: The Demon Cycle Books 1-3 and Novellas: The Painted Man, The Desert Spear, The Daylight War plus The Great Bazaar and Brayan’s Gold and Messenger’s Legacy
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Author: Peter V. Brett

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Peter V. Brett

Год написания книги

2018

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Cutting at our hearts

Only wards kept corelings at bay

‘Help me!’ we heard

A voice in need

The cry of a frightened child

‘Run to us!’ I called

‘Our circle’s wide,

The only succour for miles!’

The boy cried out

‘I can’t; I fell!’

His call echoed in the black

Catching his shout

I sought to help

But the Messenger held me back

‘What good to die?’

He asked me, grim

‘For death is all you’ll find

‘No help you’ll provide

’Gainst coreling claws

Just more meat to grind’

I struck him hard

And grabbed his spear

Leaping across the wards

A frantic charge

Strength born of fear

Before the boy be cored

‘Stay brave!’ I cried

Running hard his way

‘Keep your heart strong and true!’

‘If you can’t stride

To where it’s safe

I’ll bring the wards to you!’

I reached him quick

But not enough

Corelings gathered round

The demons thick

My work was rough

Scratching wards into the ground

A thunderous roar

Boomed in the night

A demon twenty feet tall

It towered fore

And ’gainst such might

My spear seemed puny and small

Horns like hard spears!

Claws like my arm!

A carapace hard and black!

An avalanche

Promising harm

The beast moved to the attack!