Blade of the Avatar/Blade of Midras/Chapter 23

The Gate

Chapter 23: The Gate

Excerpt

Aren rushed toward the fallen commander. He dropped to his hands and knees and pulled fiercely at the debris, shoving the shattered stones aside. He turned his face back down the wall, shouting desperately. “Llewellyn! Help me!”

The knight stood unmoving on what remained standing of the wall, blinking back at him.

“Sir Llewellyn!” Aren barked in his command voice. “Come here! Now!”

The knight shook as he broke the bonds of the stupor that held him. He dropped beside Aren, pulling furiously at the stones that had nearly entombed the commander. In moments, the battered, dust-laden form of Trevan had been uncovered.

A pool of blood was spreading out from beneath Trevan’s head.

“Help me get him free,” Aren ordered as he squatted down, pressing his boots against the rubble as he positioned himself at the head of the still figure of the commander. He could feel himself slip over the blood beneath where he sat. Aren put both arms beneath the commander’s shoulders and pulled, trying to slide the fallen warrior out of the wreckage. Trevan’s body remained where it had fallen. “Keep digging!”

Trivia

• In the original Blade of the Avatar, prior to the additional chapters added for The Sword of Midras, this was Chapter 19.