Seven Stones: Part Forty-Nine
Previously on Seven Stones: Anessa and Kobb discover that the occupants of the ruins are the survivors of an archaeological expedition. Karak sealed himself up in a tower and summoned the beasts to keep the others away. Anserth is preventing him from leaving, but is unable to get to the tower. When she discovers Anessa sneaked in and out unseen, Anserth asks Anessa to sneak past Karak’s defences.
Anessa shifted her weight onto her right foot without a sound. The edge of the rubble’d been a mess of loose chips; now she’d past that the footing was mostly stable, though. However, as she moved her left leg forward, the rigid leather guard pressed against her thigh. Startled, she stumbled.
Her left hand grabbed a nearby rock, but the ill-balanced shift made the mail on her torso rattle. The night air crept through the spaces between panels, giving her another reason to miss her comfortable leathers. After tilting her head for a few moment without hearing shouts or the flap of wings, she decided she’d not been noticed.
She wondered if the armour’d been a good idea: most of the time it moved with her, then as she thought she’d got used to it, it caught or rattled. But, if Anserth’s best fighters hadn’t crept in, would being a little quieter make a difference anyway?
