Thursday, February 3, 2022

The Outstretched Shadow (the obsidian trilogy book 1) ch 9 through 14

CH 9
They didn't make it to the border.  They gotta find a place to take a stand against the wild hunt   kellen finds a stick and they climb up a ravine.  Kellen is able to bash up the stone dogs as they come up the ravinr to get them.  Additiomally, the unicorn can make their magic animation stop if he touches them with his horn.  So kellen keeps bashing and unicorn keeps unanimating and they are able to defeat the wild hunt.  Funniest thing, there's another wild hunt right behind them.  At first Kellen is feeling hopeless and defeated again.  But then he's filled with rage at his lying asshole Father.  By some miracle his rage powers him through to bash the hell out of the second pack of stone dogs.  With what strength he has left he rides the unicorn to the border and falls unconscious.  He wakes up being fed some fowl tasting liquid.

CH 10 
Kellen wakes up and all his wounds have healed.  He doesnt even have any scares.  there's a lady.  He's instantly attracted to this lady.  He immediately thinks to himself staying celebite for a year is going to be hard.

And of course he's horny for this lady cause its his sister.  All the best SciFi / Fantasy has that thing where the main character is horny for his sister before he finds out she's his sister.

I forget his sisters name, but it starts with Id so from now on I'm calling her Idaho.  Idaho is a wild mage.  She's well known as the wild mage healer lady that lives near the border.  That's how the unicorn ended up bringing Kellen here.

She tells him that their mother isn't dead.  At least she didn't die in the city like their father claims.  So she'll probably come back in chapter thirteen.  I guess she was a wild mage too and that's why the books found Idaho and Kellen.  Idaho was banished just like Kellen.  The way she escaped from the wild hunt is she wished she could fly.  She turned into a rare bird and the spruce for the magic was she had to find another bird to mate with before she was turned back into a person.

CH 11
Idaho is teaching Kellen more about wild magic.  Lesson 1 is soul stones, or whatever they're called.  You can save your life force in the stone and then you can do small spells with that magic rather than having to pay the unpredictable wild magic cost.

They talk about how if you get a bunch of people together they can share the cost of the magic.  This point is proven when a bunch of unicorns show up with and injured young unicorn.  They all share in the cost of the healing.  God talks to them and tells them what they need to do.  It's pretty cool.  She can't touch the unicorn because she's had sex.  So kellen has to do the touching while Idaho does the magic.

CH 12
Kellen and unicorn go to.pick blackberries.  A 
Centaur comes by and says these are His BlackBerry.  When kellen tells him he's Idahos brother he gets a lot less aggressive.  Unicorn comes back and delivers a real smooth "we got a problem here" and centaur gets to skooting.  Kellen helps his sister clean up a dirty spring pond.  Then they go swimming in a warm stream.  Then on the way back kelen asks about demons.  A Fawn shows up and is all NEVER SPEAK OF THEM!!!!


CH 13
This is a demon chapter.  Queen demin knows kellen was banished and lived to tell the tale.  Queen sends her son up world to sew seeds if discord.  He disguised himself as a rich human and finds Garen Min, who he knows is a spy for Kellen's dad.  He tells him about kellen and Idaho so dad will do something rash.

CH 14
They're doing work around the cabin.  Lots of Kellen/Idaho inter monologue about what it's been like to live together for a half year.  The jerk centaur comes back and demands to be healed as he's been stung by bees.  Idaho does so and they go to the centaur village as the cost for bully centaur is that he hauls an old womans cart for a year (a lot of wild magic cost seems to be a thing you do or don't do for a year) and Idaho's part in it is that she has to announce this to the centaur village council.  It's a whole fun scene.  Humans and centaurs and other magical creatures all living in town together in peace.  Something Kellens father tiled him was impossible. Then they take baths and eat dinner and the old man healer says Idaho and Kellen should stay for the winter.  Idaho says no and Kellen suspects has it has something to do with the wild magic association with demons his father spoke of.  Like somehow Idaho is tainted by the demons and doesn't wanna spread it to the villagers.

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