The Scroll of Isidor
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Levin Ruck was once a great warrior mage: the battle-scarred wartime hero of the alpine village of Dervine and defender of the Kingdom of Flaran. But with peacetime stretching into its seventh year, opportunities for action have been scarce – even in his role as Deputy Chief of the village.
So when Desma the orchard keeper rides in late one night with news of ominous noises in the mountains, Lev knows the time for action has come.
But when Chief Magnus refuses to act, Lev takes matters into his own hands. Defying orders, he and Desma ride to the mountains to investigate the source of the disturbance.
What they discover is beyond their worst fears: a deadly threat has arrived on the village’s doorstep – and Lev and Desma are Dervine’s first and only line of defence.
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The Scroll of Isidor
Holden Sheppard
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The Scroll of Isidor
Dervine, Eastern Flaran
For the past seven years, Lev had come to associate knocking on the Chief’s knotted wooden door with a sense of suffocated dread. This night was no different.
Lev shivered. The corridor that led to the Chief’s Den was just as cold as the outside. Magnus always insisted on leaving the window open for carrier Pekrons, though it had been years since anything exciting enough had happened for someone to employ one of the messenger birds in the middle of the night. Lev glanced through the window, half-hoping to see a flutter of deep purple feathers and the guttural, hypnotic croon, but no Pekron arrived. All that was visible beyond the window was the moon: a distant, tired slice of lunate light dangling in the navy sky above, waiting for dawn.
An icy gust blew unfettered through the window. Lev drew his black Furnik-hair cloak more tightly around his shoulders, re-fastening the single button that always insisted on unclipping itself, and rapped three times on the door to the Chief’s Den.
The growl came through the door like the Chief was half-asleep. ‘Not now, jecarro.’
The dialect word for ‘young one’ soured Lev’s tongue. At twenty-nine, he may have been young for a deputy, but there was nothing juvenile about his war record. He sneered instinctively, glad of the protection the door offered.
‘Chief Magnus, it’s important.’
‘Really, jecarro? Run out of bloodvine? Cellar key’s under the mat.’
Rage flooded Lev’s veins. He pounded the flat of his fist against the door. ‘Chief, I’ve had a report of a rumbling in the mountain caves. Might be a wild Arkod. Worse, maybe another beast. We need to investigate. Slay it, if necessary.’
Something wooden clattered to the floorboards inside the Chief’s den. A grunt of effort. Heavy, laboured footsteps. The metal bolt was thrown with a clank; the door swung open.
Chief Magnus stood in the doorway, a thick silken gown draped around his wide shoulders, exposing a hairy chest and enormous, flabby gut. Crumbs of something Lev didn’t remember bringing him clung to the hairy trail between his protruding belly button and the strained line of his slip. The soft, pale