Page 25 of Wings of The Wraith
Chapter 5
Dante
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This would be veryinteresting. Very interesting indeed.
Zeek climbed on board the ship and Neo followed. I left Alec and Porter behind in Piccus. They wouldn’t survive this mission. Not at all. They were the other half of our merry band.
The Shadowlands were dangerous in the best of times.
Now that I knew we’d probably have to go in to battle with not just fucking Balmora, one of the most powerful sorceress’s I’d ever had to deal with, but the necromancer, too, I did not have any good feelings towards this mission at all.
And yet Elma thought we really could do this error free.
It was a joke. A good plan that I hated, but still a joke. I didn’t believe for one minute that things would run smoothly.
The necromancer was the one that worried me the most. Maybe we could have dealt with just Balmora. Him though, I didn’t know.
It was his abilities that threw me right off kilter.
I couldn’t think of anyone who had the kind of power he had. Power enough to put a curse on the sentinels. Power enough to block out a day when he executed this plan of his so no one would remember.
Shit.
He was never known by a name, but the name people had given him was Cain.
As in Cain and Abel. Adam’s Cain.
Cain was destined to roam the earth, legend has it that was exactly what he did, but instead of continuing on the path for forgiveness for killing Abel, he embraced evil. Made a deal with the devil and started practicing dark magic.
Soon he dropped the devil and linked up with beings so much worse I dreaded to think.
Beings like the hell god Razul.
Neo sat down in the seat next to me as one of the gargoyles flew into the room. It had been helping me to load the ship.
“Must that thing come with us?” Neo asked looking at the little creature with distaste.
“I couldn’t get rid of it.” I laughed. “We can bring it back when we return. Gargoyles can make an excellent feast.”
“Like fuck.” Neo shook his white blonde head. “I’m not eating anything from that creature.”
“They’re harmless.”
“There’s something off about that one.”
“There’s something off about everyone in your book. Pretty certain you said the same thing about me.” I chuckled.
“I did. But there is something off about you.”
I shook my head at him.
The gargoyle took its position by the control panel of the ship where Zeek was.
Since Zeek designed the airship, I needed him to harness his skills if we needed him to fly out of danger.
Neo was the second most powerful person here, next to me. With his half Elvin and demon abilities, he was like my demon side.
