The Arcanum tutors had called the spell a ‘last resort’, because each minute Perle spent in that state would be killing him in different ways. He guessed she’d used a Revenant spell to bind soul to flesh to buy the young Inquisitor time until a healer could be found. Nytrasia let him retreat unmolested, focused on protecting her son. The creature responded with a whinny, but it was at least a hundred yards away. He backed away, moving towards where he’d seen Severine running, and called with his mind to the khurne he’d ridden here. but darkness was only a few more seconds away. The most delicate necromantic-gnosis couldn’t be completed while the sun was still up. The young man’s body kept twitching into life. Ramon circled to the right, trying to get a line of sight on the half-dead Perle, but Alis Nytrasia kept extending her shields to protect her son. His eyes were blank as he lunged towards her. He straightened up, his smooth skull gleaming wetly from a fresh wound. She scooped up her child, then tried to scrabble up the far side of the cleft as the Dokken reached to the bottom. He began to slither face-first down the slope towards them. His features were lost in the shadow, but she could tell it was Delta. Then a head and shoulders appeared, silhouetted against the sky above. Julietta was only a few yards below her, screaming and wriggling, half-free of her swaddling. She’d fallen into some kind of shallow cleft, only a dozen or so yards wide.
Above her was a line of pale sky, a narrow ribbon of light. She whimpered fearfully and groped around in the shadows, her voice echoing oddly. Then her head struck a larger rock, right by her ear and she almost blacked out, and Julietta slipped from her grasp.
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She sheltered Julietta against her chest and shielded her as they tumbled over broken stones and slid, grazing skin and tearing flesh. then Delta shrieked in agony and fell on his face – just as she, distracted, found herself running off the edge of a drop.įor a moment her legs flailed for purchase in the air and then she fell into darkness. Severine heard Delta a heartbeat behind her, felt him reaching out . The sun slipped a little further now it was half obscured by the horizon. He came up even further from Perle, still writhing on the ground. But Nytrasia used his inattention to strike back and he barely fended her first bolt and had to physically throw himself to one side to avoid the next. Ramon backed up a pace and glimpsed Delta pursuing Sevvie he darted out of Nytrasia’s reach and hurled a mage-bolt at the unshielded Dokken, blasting him off his feet. ‘Hold on!’ she shouted over her shoulder. You can’t beat me.’īehind her Perle whimpered, ‘ Mother! ’ Then he cried out, ‘ I’m burning! ’ ‘You’re still only a half-blood, “Dubrayle”,’ she jeered. He backed up, blocking and shielding hard. He spun away, gasping, tried again, and came back bloodied across the left shoulder.
He jumped back up, circled right and came in again, slashing at her legs, but she parried, riposted and nearly skewered his thigh. Gnostic shields scraping against each other and setting off sparks, they both shoved and he was sent rolling head-over-heels. But before he could think it through, Nytrasia stepped into his path and their swords hammered jarringly together and locked. She’s kept him alive through Necromancy, and that takes blood . Ramon went for Perle, his blade raised, as the last few seconds of sunlight started vanishing and the night prepared to roll in like a giant boulder. His boots crunched on the sands as he followed her, getting closer and closer . She chanced a look over her shoulder and saw the Dokken turn his mask-face her way. So she went the other way, stumbling as the rocks gouged painfully through her thin sandals, as Nytrasia screamed, ‘Delta! Get the baby! Kill the woman!’
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He’s dead – he’s been reanimated! And when the sun goes down, he’s going to be free to rip us apart -īelatedly her brain interpreted what Ramon had shouted: RUN! To the left was the hut, behind it the skiff – but her gnosis was Chained, and the Dokken was there. Perle was tearing at his dressing, revealing livid-white corpse-skin that immediately began to char as the necromantic-gnosis in his aura was corrupted by the sunlight. Ramon came roaring out of the shadows, his cloak rippling like bat wings.