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“If he wants the knife, then we may as well show it to him,” the man said to his companions. To me, he added, “On your feet, then. This will be easier for you if you cooperate.”
Chapter LVI: The Burial-Ground
In the latest chapter of Journey to the Water, Eske gets captured. Again. Not really on purpose this time. You can read it right now on Patreon.
“You are welcome in my hall, Eske of the Bear Clan,” Oeric said. “If you are as brave as you were in your tale, you will serve me well against the barbarians.”
Chapter LV: The Hall of King Oeric
An ambitious warlord’s even more ambitious son, a missing relic, and a long-brewing civil war: Eske has found himself in a pickle yet again. You can read this chapter right now on Patreon.
“Take this man outside and cut off his head,” he said. “You can hang it from the wall as an example to the others.”
Chapter LIV: The Ring-Fort
We’re starting a new arc! Eske arrives at his destination and is met with hostility. You can read this chapter right now on Patreon.
“His servant is only a child,” I said, “as much flesh and blood as you or I. As for the rest, I cannot say. I can only swear to you that I will spend no one’s blood but my own.”
Chapter LIII: Departing Once More
An old rival, a promise made, and a new journey: Eske sets out once more in the latest chapter of Journey to the Water, now available on Patreon.
I looked away. “There was no victory in Phyreios. You should understand that better than anyone.”
Chapter LII: A Temple of Faces
Eske meets an old rival and receives a warning in the latest chapter of Journey to the Water, available on Patreon. My Patreon is only $3 a month!
If I had done evil, I told myself, then the evil I had done was a trivial thing. I had freed Svilsara from the serpent, and left the mage-king alive, giving his foes nothing. If I had to do penance, I would do it after I found Khalim.
Chapter LI: Friendlier Shores
I’ve got a shiny new chapter for you over on Patreon, in which Eske returns to the sorcerer’s tower and grapples with the consequences of his quest. Also, as you can see, I am back to working on the draft!
His heretic cult might gain some infamy if I had fought with Alaba, but what use was a dead outlander to their mysterious cause?
Chapter L: The Way Down
Eske makes a daring escape in the latest chapter of Journey to the Water, which you can read right now on Patreon. For all the previous chapters, visit the Stories tab above.
“You’re not an assassin? You’re a common thief?”
“Hardly common,” I said.
Chapter XLIX: The Treasure-Hall of the Mage-King
Eske faces off with a mysterious monarch in a treasure vault high above the forest floor. You can read this chapter right now on Patreon.
Here was a land where the living worshiped the dead, and where hidden, shadowy gods dueled for control of honored corpses kept within vaults of stone or living wood.
Chapter XLVIII: To the Upper Kingdom
Under the guidance of a man who might be a cult leader, Eske makes the climb from the forest floor to the treetop vault where the artifact he seeks should lie. You can read this chapter right now on Patreon.
“Mostly, though, we offer hope that the world will be different, when the gods return, than what has been promised.”
Chapter XLVII: Under the Trees
Eske encounters a strange new landscape and an even stranger new traveling companion in the latest chapter of Journey to the Water. You can read this chapter right now on Patreon.
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