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Chapter Thirty-One: Andorra's Vein Part One
After three days of running and two silent, wary nights, we arrived at a deep gorge. There was a three-hundred and fifty-meter long wooden bridge hanging over with ropes for suspensions. It was wide enough to be a two-way lane. As the stagecoach began to cross at a slow pace, there was a bit of rocking when we were in the middle. Hoping if it could support everyone’s weight, I held my breath until we got to the other end.
The stagecoach stopped about twelve yards. We all went out to gaze at the bridge one last time. Anne stepped forward with her golden bow readied.
“Are you sure about this, Chief?” Raja asked.
“We’ll be a week away by the time they get around the gorge.”
“But, this is King Martel’s bridge,” Marseille protested. “He was your —”
“He wouldn’t mind,” Anne insisted. “Trust me on this.”
Katie asked Zeki in a hushed tone, “Who’s King Martel?”
“He was the first king of Blue Bucephalus,” he answered. “Green Bits used to
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“Hmm, this is good.” I took another bite of a deathstalker meat. Earlier, several deathstalkers managed to get out before the mine shut, only to be killed by Green Bits’ arrows and rocks I threw. The Green Bits roasted one for today’s lunch while the rest were cut and preserved for our next meal. We were all in a clearing, eating beside the closed exit. This place was large enough for Brock to play his football match if it weren’t for the scattered tree stumps and ponds that got in the way. “Are you sure you don’t want some?” Miranda glanced at Brock, Katie, Marseille, her companions, and the Green Bit recruits. They were munching a different meal that didn’t have more than four legs. “Nah, we’re good.” Katie was grossed out at the giant scorpion roasting over the fire pit. “You sure?” Miranda had been coaxing them to try except for Raja and Li. “They were actually good. Tastes like chicken.” “Almost every meat we caught tasted like chicken,”
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Once our visions became clear to see the dark, we saw the thing that was dragging him. It was a leafless tree, smaller than the common ones here. However, its branches were alive, hundreds of them; vine-like, slithering, coiling on its own like snakes. I didn’t know what that thing was, but Brock was definitely in danger. I was about to leap to save him when dozens of them were coming at us. Plucking a thick branch off from a nearby tree to fashion myself a club, I swatted the vines away before any of them could touch us both. “Katie, stay back.” “What about you?” “Don’t worry about me,” I said. “I can handle this.” Reluctantly, Katie paced backward about eight steps and watched as six large vines were about to flank me. I lunged forward and rolled before they slammed into each other. Back to my feet, I twirled around, and with one downward swing of my club, the vines were smashed like smooshed pasta. The monstrous tree emitted a screeching s
The Game of Heavens and Earth Chapter Thirty-Five: Rockflower Part One
“We’re home, dear,” Mary said, to which Abraham smilingly nodded. After two weeks, we finally reached the northeastern part of the continent, at the border between the flat wasteland and the forest where the bulge-shaped tree line stretched kilometers upon kilometers. In the middle, we gazed at the only landmark around. The Mayflower Guild’s Blue Zone was called Rockflower. With a small blue sky above, Rockflower was a ring wall of jagged rocks about the size of a stadium and had, what appeared to be, a large wrought iron door. “Looks ominous,” Li said about its appearance. “It’s to keep the monsters away, dearie,” Mary explained. “We’ve got all the comfort inside that would make city folks feel right at home.” “Good, I could use a real bath,” Katie groaned. “Me too.” Brock sniffed his collar. “I can’t believe this forest is so huge, and we still haven’t found a single river.” “Didn’t you check our map yesterday?” Miranda asked.
The Game of Heavens and Earth Chapter Thirty-Six: Rockflower Part Two
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