The Legacy of Lord Regret: Strange Threads: Book 1 (35 page)
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Authors: Sam Bowring
Forger’s heel on his back drove Despirrow to the ground, pushing the sword backwards out of him. Forger seized it and pulled
it free.
‘It’s a shame,’ he said, ‘that I have no use for the pain I cause another Warden. Good for you though, I suppose, else we
could be here a long time.’
Despirrow shakily raised his head and saw Forger with the blade in one hand, a sputtering candle in the other. Where had he
got a candle? Despirrow wondered vaguely.
‘But I don’t want to die again,’ he pleaded.
‘Who does?’
Scorching lines leapt from the candle. Despirrow tried to unthread them before they reached him, but he was too enervated.
Fire touched him, and he screamed. There was no place to retreat, except maybe …
Desperately, he stopped time. The flames spilling from the candle ceased, and those on his body fell away in hard red shards.
‘You want to prolong this?’ said Forger. ‘Make me hack you to bits instead?’
‘If you kill me now,’ Despirrow forced the words through scalded lips, ‘how can you know that time will ever start again?’
‘Because
your
threads aren’t frozen,’ said Forger, ‘so they will come to me.’
And he set about Despirrow with his sword.
The story continues …
BOOK
2 in the
STRANGE THREADS DUOLOGY
The world is crumbling.
Having joined the Warden Priestess Yalenna, Rostigan must face those Wardens who remain bent on steeping Aorn in ruin and,
somehow, heal the world by closing the Wound in the Great Spell.
Standing in his way is a superhuman army commanded by a madman, a sky full of silkjaws and, worst of all, an old friend, once
betrayed, whom he must now convince to join him again.
There is only one thing for it – Rostigan must break an ancient oath and use powers he has dared not touch – powers that could
tip the balance in favour of the spreading corruption.