SOUL OF SWORDS, another excerpt

It’s Friday! Let’s finish off the week with another snippet from SOUL OF SWORDS:

The creature tottered forward, cackling. “And you, serpent, are now my slave! Bow before me!”

“A ridiculous request,” said Skalatan. “I will not kneel to you.”

The revenant’s withered lips peeled back from its yellowing teeth. “You will kneel to me!”

“As I do not possess knees,” Skalatan said, “I fail to see how I shall accomplish this.”

The revenant titled its head and stared at him.

“The San-keth do not have limbs,” said Skalatan. “Surely a wizard of your wisdom knows this.”

Skalatan did not possess much of a sense of humor, but he nonetheless enjoyed the twitch of irritation that went through the revenant’s frame.

-JM