I’m not sure what I was expecting from the golgari when we showed up on their mountain. A friendly reception? Certainly not. However, I really didn’t expect something like this.
Marzban roars something and the whole ship changes.
The boat rattles with brathian feet pounding on the wooden deck.
[There’s going to be a fight, let me down! I can kill them. Kill them all!]
[I said I’m not letting you down until you relax, and I meant it.]
[Gaaaah!]
Odin thrashes about uselessly, but there’s nothing he can do.
[See? You need to work out that anger. I’ll float you up some Biomass later, so be quiet for a minute.]
[I’m not a pet!]
[That’s the spirit.]
In the distance, a stone is arcing toward us through the air, fired from… something about halfway up the giant mountain in front of us. Obviously, I’m not an expert when it comes to siege weaponry or anything, but I don’t think this is going to hit us.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter, as the brathian mages get together and blast it out of the sky, sending a shower of stone shards crashing into their hastily raised shields.
help?] I ask the brathian
can you do in this situation?] he asks
anything,
and float them away from the fleet, but I suspect they
turns to me with a brow raised, light glittering off the scales on his bare
[You sure about that?]
of this next one. I think it’s going
next one? Oh, sand
else at the crew and I can see people are freaking out all over the fleet. Shifting my head slightly I take a better look at the
has been unlawfully lifted without the author's consent.
as well take control
begin to pull in vast amounts of mana, channelling it through a gravity magic construct in a furious torrent of power.
enormous boulder reaches the peak of its arc and begins to descend, I judge the distance carefully and prepare to release my
of it,] I tell Marzban,
is shocking, an invisible shockwave that radiates
my influence. I spend a bit of energy to slingshot it around my well and it
people,] I remark to Marzban. [It’s not like there aren’t more impressive
expression as he continues to stare at the mountain before us, watching for any
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