The Pogrom of Mages: The Healers of Glastamear: Volume One by Charles Williamson Page A
Authors: Charles Williamson
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look for other healers inland and he had business in Briarton.
He assured them that the naiads would know of their approach to Black Sand Beach long before they reached the reef. If they got separated on their journey, they should ask for Obert the shaman when they made contact with the naiads, but in no case should they try and cross the reef without a naiad guide. It was the death place of a hundred ships.
One captain asked why the naiads were offering help.
“They have no love for Perry or his church, but they do respect healers. Really, what can the church do about it? If every knight protector on the continent attacked Black Sand Beach, the naiads would just stay underwater until the knights either gave up or drown trying to reach them.”
Chapter 19
The fishing boats each had small cabins on the stern decks that enclosed a cast iron cooking stoves surrounded by stone safety enclosures. Each cabin held two bunk beds. The small room was packed with cooking supplies, hanging from the ceiling and stored on every shelf. There was even storage beneath the bunks. If a meal were being prepared, it would be impossible to sleep in one of the cabins. The line fishing boats normally went to sea with a crew of four, but only two were ever sleeping at once. Michael decided to use the below deck sleeping room prepared for the healers. It would be quiet and roomy until they picked up the Snowport healers.
Eric Goodfriend captained the Diana. Once they were outside the harbor and sailing north, Captain Eric walked over and slapped him on the back showing a wide grin.
“Thank you Michael; you made this possible.”
“I could never have gotten started without your help and the others who’ve joined us.”
“My mother, Lady Marsha is the guild master for the provinces of Snowport, White Plains, and the White Mountains. She gathered and led the healers who escaped by the sea. I have a good idea where they’ll hide, a cave in Snow Troll Fiord. It’s a three day sail with favorable winds.”
“Trolls, are there really trolls left in northern Glastamear?”
“Perhaps, but no one I know has ever seen one. The name comes from a rock formation by the mouth of the fiord.”
“Did your mother know that the many of the priests and all of the knight protectors could detect a healer’s manna from thousands of paces away?”
“She wasn’t willing to explain things that are secrets of the Healers’ High Council, but she did tell me they could be spotted by the church from a distance. That’s why they fled to an uninhabited region, but she knew they couldn’t stay there through the winter. Our problem was to find a safe place for them with food and supplies for the whole winter. It’s when you said that you knew a haven without priests that we decided to act. Within a month or at best six weeks, the Snow Troll Fiord will freeze solid. After the freeze, their hiding place can only be reached by a dog sled traveling from the mouth of the fiord. It would have been almost impossible to keep them in firewood and well fed through the eight months of snow and ice. Michael, you gave us hope, and we’re also lucky that all the knight protectors had traveled south looking for two escaped healers. Was that your doing?”
“Yes, I helped a couple of guys about my age. They are also making their way to Black Sand Beach. In case the church captures some of us, I don’t want to tell you our final destination now, but Lord Hampton and other senior healers are either there already at the safe haven or waiting at Black Sand Beach to sail there with you. I’ll tell your mother, and she can let you know once you sail from Black Sand Beach. The church in Snowport almost seemed ready to allow us to escape.”
“High Priest Carson is a good man, but he doesn’t control the knight protectors. They report through their own Major Blake and through him directly to the parent church in Min Hollow. If they’d been in town, they would never
He assured them that the naiads would know of their approach to Black Sand Beach long before they reached the reef. If they got separated on their journey, they should ask for Obert the shaman when they made contact with the naiads, but in no case should they try and cross the reef without a naiad guide. It was the death place of a hundred ships.
One captain asked why the naiads were offering help.
“They have no love for Perry or his church, but they do respect healers. Really, what can the church do about it? If every knight protector on the continent attacked Black Sand Beach, the naiads would just stay underwater until the knights either gave up or drown trying to reach them.”
Chapter 19
The fishing boats each had small cabins on the stern decks that enclosed a cast iron cooking stoves surrounded by stone safety enclosures. Each cabin held two bunk beds. The small room was packed with cooking supplies, hanging from the ceiling and stored on every shelf. There was even storage beneath the bunks. If a meal were being prepared, it would be impossible to sleep in one of the cabins. The line fishing boats normally went to sea with a crew of four, but only two were ever sleeping at once. Michael decided to use the below deck sleeping room prepared for the healers. It would be quiet and roomy until they picked up the Snowport healers.
Eric Goodfriend captained the Diana. Once they were outside the harbor and sailing north, Captain Eric walked over and slapped him on the back showing a wide grin.
“Thank you Michael; you made this possible.”
“I could never have gotten started without your help and the others who’ve joined us.”
“My mother, Lady Marsha is the guild master for the provinces of Snowport, White Plains, and the White Mountains. She gathered and led the healers who escaped by the sea. I have a good idea where they’ll hide, a cave in Snow Troll Fiord. It’s a three day sail with favorable winds.”
“Trolls, are there really trolls left in northern Glastamear?”
“Perhaps, but no one I know has ever seen one. The name comes from a rock formation by the mouth of the fiord.”
“Did your mother know that the many of the priests and all of the knight protectors could detect a healer’s manna from thousands of paces away?”
“She wasn’t willing to explain things that are secrets of the Healers’ High Council, but she did tell me they could be spotted by the church from a distance. That’s why they fled to an uninhabited region, but she knew they couldn’t stay there through the winter. Our problem was to find a safe place for them with food and supplies for the whole winter. It’s when you said that you knew a haven without priests that we decided to act. Within a month or at best six weeks, the Snow Troll Fiord will freeze solid. After the freeze, their hiding place can only be reached by a dog sled traveling from the mouth of the fiord. It would have been almost impossible to keep them in firewood and well fed through the eight months of snow and ice. Michael, you gave us hope, and we’re also lucky that all the knight protectors had traveled south looking for two escaped healers. Was that your doing?”
“Yes, I helped a couple of guys about my age. They are also making their way to Black Sand Beach. In case the church captures some of us, I don’t want to tell you our final destination now, but Lord Hampton and other senior healers are either there already at the safe haven or waiting at Black Sand Beach to sail there with you. I’ll tell your mother, and she can let you know once you sail from Black Sand Beach. The church in Snowport almost seemed ready to allow us to escape.”
“High Priest Carson is a good man, but he doesn’t control the knight protectors. They report through their own Major Blake and through him directly to the parent church in Min Hollow. If they’d been in town, they would never
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