by D. H. Aire
“Me?” Spiro asked. “I remember our taking on… or did I dream that ruddy statue hitting you over the head before he turned on me and muttered something about our disturbing his sleep…”
She frowned, thinking back. “Hmm, I seem to remember something like both, too,” she said, sighing.
“Ow,” another voice muttered, crawling out of a pile of hay.
Tett’s eyes widened, “Renara, what are you doing here?”
“Apparently where you go, I go, you fool.”
“Me?”
“You saved my life.”
“Oops,” Tett rasped. “I didn’t mean to.”
“Then that’s why, oh, my,” Spiro said.
“What are you talking about?” Tett asked.
Renara shrugged, “I’m bound to you for saving my life.”
Spiro sighed, “Tett, she follows the old ways.”
“They are honest ways,” she responded, angrily.
“Of course, they are,” Spiro answered. “Congratulations, Tett, she’ll guard your back until she saves your life. She may kill you after that, but she’ll protect you well enough until that day.”
Tett frowned, “Lady Farrel?”
She was looking up. There was a scraping sound; the hatch above them was drawn back. “The Captain wanted me to tell you your passage includes meals in the galley, such as they are.”
“Not a problem,” Farrel said as lad closed the hatch.
The young newly signed deckhand smiled thinly, muttering, “Not for me, either.”
Continued in Prophecies and Paradox,
Book Six of the Highmage’s Plight
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
D.H. Aire has walked the ramparts of the Old City of Jerusalem and through an escape tunnel of a Crusader fortress that Richard the Lionheart once called home. He’s toured archeological sites that were hundreds, if not thousands of years old… experiences that have found expression in his writing of his Highmage’s Plight Series.
D.H. Aire’s short stories and a serialized version of Highmage’s Plight, Human Mage, and Highmage have been featured in the ezine Separate Worlds, as did an excerpt from Merchants and Mages. A collection of his short stories appear in the anthology, Flights of Fantasy, Vol. 1, also featuring the stories of Barry Nove. Aire’s story Crossroads of Sin appears in the anthology, RealLies. He has sample chapters of his urban fantasy, Dare 2 Believe and a Young Adult short story, Time Out, available on Wattpad.com, a free site intended for young adult readers.
To learn more about this series and his other projects, visit the author’s website, www.dhr2believe.net.
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