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mean?’
‘We must find refuge for you. A place where you will be safe.’
She looked as if she wanted to cry. ‘Avelorn was safe. If I was not safe in the heart of my own realm where will I be?’
‘I don’t know,’ Tyrion said. ‘But we will need to find somewhere.’
‘You sound very angry, Prince Tyrion.’
‘And you are not?’
‘I have not had time to feel very much of anything, except afraid.’
‘It is our enemies who will be afraid by the time we are finished,’ Tyrion said. He knew he sounded petulant, like a small boy telling his friends that one day he would get even with a bully, but he meant it. One day there would be a reckoning for the carnage here. He would make the Witch King and all his minions pay.
‘How could this have happened?’ Alarielle asked.
‘We were too confident,’ Tyrion said. ‘We thought the threat of Naggaroth had ended. It had not. There is only one way it ever will be. When the Witch King and all who follow him are dead.’
‘I meant how did they find me? How did they get such a force into the heart of Avelorn? It should have not been possible. Our scouts should have seen them. The Eagles would have spotted them from afar.’
‘Magic would be my guess, but what sort I do not know. It is a subject I know very little about. My brother would know more.’
‘Chaos has returned to the world,’ Alarielle said. ‘I feel it. It is always there now, far in the distance, a great cancer eating away at the heart of the world. The winds of magic are tainted. Shadows lengthen, even here in Avelorn.’
‘You think this has something to do with the invasion?’
‘All things are connected. There is more power and more evil in the air than there has been for a very long time.’
How would you know? Tyrion wanted to ask. You are younger than me and I am not old as elves measure time. He kept his mouth shut. He would have sounded foolish anyway, for the Everqueen inherited more than a title when she was crowned. Who knew what hidden knowledge was available to her? Who knew what magical powers?
‘Can you help us? Can you use your magic to shield us?’ he asked.
‘I will do what I can,’ she said. ‘My powers were not intended for warfare.’
‘Anything you could do would help. We are on our own here.’
She seemed to realise the pressure that was on him. ‘You have done your best for me, Prince Tyrion, and I will be forever grateful.’
‘My best may not be good enough. There is an army out there and they are hunting for you. Who knows what they will do when they find you?’
‘Let us pray I never find out,’ she said.
‘Who shall we pray to?’ Tyrion asked. ‘Our gods seem to have deserted us.’
‘One of your gods is still with you,’ she said.
‘Let us make sure it stays that way,’ he said. They set off deeper into the dark woods. Behind them Avelorn burned.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The first of WILLIAM KING’S sixteen novels for the Black Library, Trollslayer, was published in 1999. He is the creator of the much-loved Gotrek & Felix series and the Space Wolf novels starring Ragnar Blackmane. William King’s much anticipated return to the worlds of Warhammer has brought to life a new trilogy, the Tyrion & Teclis series, for which the first novel, Blood of Aenarion, was shortlisted for the David Gemmell Legend award. His novel Angel of Fire features the legendary Warhammer 40,000 hero, Lord Solar Macharius.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Warhammer
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
About The Author
Legal
eBook license
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Warhammer
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
About The Author
Legal
eBook license