Battle Mage: Winds of Change (The High King: A Tale of Alus Book 11) by Donald Wigboldy Page A
Authors: Donald Wigboldy
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into going to White Hall. "Flying would certainly be a helpful piece of magic with the emperor's new creatures around. Did you hear that he has started using giant shrikes to attack the nomads?
"It is just a matter of time before the Dark One creates enough of the monsters to attack Southwall. The wall will be useless once the enemy can fly right over it. He nearly succeeded in destroying the Two Towers just using Palose and his portals. Another enemy capable of attacking the defenders on the wall or opening gates behind our lines could be the end of us in a battle."
Darius nodded and admitted, "Then it is a good thing that you have reason to go to White Hall then. Maybe the owl can finally learn how to fly as well?"
Giving the wizard another nod, the two men lapsed into silence. Sebastian was glad enough to see Ashleen as the girl came to draw him back to the dance floor and end their conversation.
Chapter 6- Gate Mage
"Come on, sleepy head," Sebastian encouraged the blonde lump as Ashleen rolled away from the mage when he tried to get his assistant up for the chore they had for the morning.
When the girl had truly become a hater of early mornings, he wasn't quite sure. Bas remembered traveling in the winter with her, though Ashleen had been in a carriage for the trip from Falcon's Keep to Windmeer. While it meant that the apprentice hadn't needed to ride horses, the mage couldn't believe that she had rested that much on the trail running between the two guardian cities.
Their escort duties had followed her lord's schedule, which didn't include rising early most mornings; but they were up at a reasonable time.
After traveling to White Hall, his team had separated from the Kardorian lord's caravan as he trained at the school for a time before heading to the tournament. Ashleen probably was on a similar schedule, but Sebastian saw nothing of her habits until they reunited at sea. Traveling on the ship left everyone with odd habits of sleeping.
Sebastian and some of the others still found ways to train to keep themselves occupied aboard ship. They weren't sailors and could pitch in only so much without getting in the sailors' way on the deck. Ashleen tried to learn portal magic late in the trip like the rest, but again no one really followed any sort of schedule while at sea.
"Five more minutes," Ashleen grumbled from her pillow.
He pulled back the sheet. If it were winter and with a few layers of blankets, the change in temperature would have certainly encouraged the girl to come awake; but summer was winding down and the air in the room was comfortable.
"We can't wait five minutes for you," he said swatting her butt and heard a muffled yelp from the pillow. It was the most padded of her body to receive the good natured wake up call, and Sebastian smiled slightly at the feel of her as well. "I've already bathed and dressed. We need to get downstairs and eat before tackling this new gate set up."
Turning her head, the girl's right eye opened glaring at him with crystal blue annoyance. "That's your problem. You're the one who volunteered to make it."
"And you chose to be my apprentice, so you volunteered because you are following me."
"I resign," she replied but rolled to sit with her legs dangling from the mattress. Stretching her arms over her head, Ashleen continued, "Besides I was your smith's apprentice. How does this qualify as apprentice work?"
"We'll be working with metal and runes just like the swords."
The mage's face looked away from the girl as she cutely yawned before slipping from the bed to stand. One step closer to being ready for the day, Sebastian was already thinking of the task he had taken for himself.
He had never worked a frame as large as they had planned for Hala. It would be sixteen feet long and ten feet high. The measurements had been determined by guessing at what would need to be moved through a portal.
While most of the time the size would be overkill, the idea was to
"It is just a matter of time before the Dark One creates enough of the monsters to attack Southwall. The wall will be useless once the enemy can fly right over it. He nearly succeeded in destroying the Two Towers just using Palose and his portals. Another enemy capable of attacking the defenders on the wall or opening gates behind our lines could be the end of us in a battle."
Darius nodded and admitted, "Then it is a good thing that you have reason to go to White Hall then. Maybe the owl can finally learn how to fly as well?"
Giving the wizard another nod, the two men lapsed into silence. Sebastian was glad enough to see Ashleen as the girl came to draw him back to the dance floor and end their conversation.
Chapter 6- Gate Mage
"Come on, sleepy head," Sebastian encouraged the blonde lump as Ashleen rolled away from the mage when he tried to get his assistant up for the chore they had for the morning.
When the girl had truly become a hater of early mornings, he wasn't quite sure. Bas remembered traveling in the winter with her, though Ashleen had been in a carriage for the trip from Falcon's Keep to Windmeer. While it meant that the apprentice hadn't needed to ride horses, the mage couldn't believe that she had rested that much on the trail running between the two guardian cities.
Their escort duties had followed her lord's schedule, which didn't include rising early most mornings; but they were up at a reasonable time.
After traveling to White Hall, his team had separated from the Kardorian lord's caravan as he trained at the school for a time before heading to the tournament. Ashleen probably was on a similar schedule, but Sebastian saw nothing of her habits until they reunited at sea. Traveling on the ship left everyone with odd habits of sleeping.
Sebastian and some of the others still found ways to train to keep themselves occupied aboard ship. They weren't sailors and could pitch in only so much without getting in the sailors' way on the deck. Ashleen tried to learn portal magic late in the trip like the rest, but again no one really followed any sort of schedule while at sea.
"Five more minutes," Ashleen grumbled from her pillow.
He pulled back the sheet. If it were winter and with a few layers of blankets, the change in temperature would have certainly encouraged the girl to come awake; but summer was winding down and the air in the room was comfortable.
"We can't wait five minutes for you," he said swatting her butt and heard a muffled yelp from the pillow. It was the most padded of her body to receive the good natured wake up call, and Sebastian smiled slightly at the feel of her as well. "I've already bathed and dressed. We need to get downstairs and eat before tackling this new gate set up."
Turning her head, the girl's right eye opened glaring at him with crystal blue annoyance. "That's your problem. You're the one who volunteered to make it."
"And you chose to be my apprentice, so you volunteered because you are following me."
"I resign," she replied but rolled to sit with her legs dangling from the mattress. Stretching her arms over her head, Ashleen continued, "Besides I was your smith's apprentice. How does this qualify as apprentice work?"
"We'll be working with metal and runes just like the swords."
The mage's face looked away from the girl as she cutely yawned before slipping from the bed to stand. One step closer to being ready for the day, Sebastian was already thinking of the task he had taken for himself.
He had never worked a frame as large as they had planned for Hala. It would be sixteen feet long and ten feet high. The measurements had been determined by guessing at what would need to be moved through a portal.
While most of the time the size would be overkill, the idea was to
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