City Of Steel (Chaos Awakens Book 3) - Plot & Excerpts
He sat starring out from the small cave in which he and his companions had taken shelter for the night. It had been several hours since the Unth had departed. The dark had come and gone, and the sun was climbing into the sky again, a barely visible spot of light behind a sky that was gray and sullen with the swelling of its snow filled belly. Xandrith didn’t need to be a scholar of storms to know that something big was coming. The already inhospitable mountain top was on the verge of becoming even more dangerous, and he and the others were still wasting time waiting for the return of the Unth.They’d already been forced to retreat nearly a mile down the mountain before they found a place to take cover. Tilda and Crow weren’t blessed with any special resistance to the terrible cold, and they were suffering because of that. Xandrith’s part troll blood kept him from feeling the full bite of the weather, and Haley was protected by the nature of her axe. They’d gone out together and gathered just enough wood to keep a small fire burning for a few hours, but that was fading quickly. Very little was growing on the mountain, and so there wasn’t more fuel for the fire to be found. The sun would warm them a bit, but if they didn’t get moving and find some real shelter Tilda and Crow wouldn’t survive another night out in the wilds. “Are you alright, Xan?” Haley’s voice startled the assassin from his dark thoughts. He forced a smile. “I’m fine, just wondering where our Unth friend has gone.” He looked back over his shoulder. Crow and Tilda were gathered close around the last embers of the fire. The cave was warm for the time being, but it was too shallow to stay warm long once the fire was gone. The heat would be pulled out by the whipping wind. “Do you think she’ll really come back?” The question Haley asked was one that Xan had been asking himself the last few hours. The Unth could easily solve the problem of their unwanted guests by simply not returning. Xandrith hoped they would have more honor than that, but he wasn’t willing to bet any of their lives on such a flimsy hope. “I’m not sure. If she’s not back soon we’ll be moving on with or without the Unth’s permission. Crow and Tilda aren’t going to get any warmer waiting around here. At least if we’re moving they’ll maintain some body heat, and perhaps we can find more wood, or a better place to camp.” Xandrith laid out the complete skeleton of his plans. Plan may have been too strong a word.
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