On Wings of Chaos (Revenant Wyrd Book 5) (39 page)

“I know this is hard for you,” Steuben told him, his eyes locked on the dead gaze of Margie. “I’ll stay here with you while you do it.”

But firm hands on his shoulders made Steuben look up. By the time he realized that something else had come over his master, it was too late to run. Maggots and white worms writhed in Garrett’s mouth, burrowing into the lump of flesh therein.

Steuben opened his mouth to scream, but Garrett buried his stinking maw in Steuben’s neck before he could make so much as a sound.

Steuben fell, and Garrett tumbled along with him, never breaking his mouth from Steuben’s neck. As the light slipped from Steuben’s eyes, worms slid out of Garrett’s chomping mouth and into the open wound.

Hours later the dark-skinned Steuben and the gray-bearded Garrett shambled out of the barn. In their wake, trailing corded lengths of intestine after her, slumped Margie. They made their way north-east, into the mountains.

Inside their brains the worms were fast at work, taking over their hosts with the need to find the Neferis.

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About Travis

Travis Simmons was kicked out of magic school for his refusal to study and his penchant for mundane activities like cooking. While selling his sword he stumbled upon dogs that he wrongly thought were magical and imagined he could commune with them. After a vicious zombie attack in which witches helped him push back the undead horde, Travis found himself apprenticed to a necromancer.

Afraid that winter was coming, Travis tucked into his magical studies, but always chased his dreams of writing tales science fiction tales and fantasy stories where he could explore his wild imagination about life on other planets. Adamant that Travis learn the esoteric ways of the occult his master made his life a horror of practice and studies. But no matter how he tried, he could never conquer Travis' questing mind.