Kormak tumbled forwards into blackness.
He awoke. His body felt as if it was on fire. Above him, the ceiling rippled and it took him a moment to realise he was in a silk pavilion. There were several other people present.
He looked up to see Gilean looking down at him. With her was Master Graydon and Baron Enderby.
“It seems you are not ready to march into the Kingdoms of Dust yet,” said Graydon.
“I am not so certain my body agrees with you. I feel like I have been chewed up by a dragon and spat out.”
Graydon gave him a wintery smile. “You may yet have a chance for that to happen but for the moment you seem well. The master alchemist has been dosing you with the universal antidote and the master herbalist has been treating your wounds. He says that given time, you should make a full recovery. Your shoulder muscles should heal and the arrow in your side did not touch your lung.”
“The Blight,” Kormak asked.
“We have found the source of the corruption— in the rotting corpse of the great tree. We will burn it with alchemical fire and salt the ground. We shall burn out the corrupted groves. It will take time but I am hopeful that we will cauterise this foul growth.”
“Weaver?”
“She won’t be coming back after what you did to her. The Baron and his men took her body and chopped it to pieces. We burned them.”
“How did you get the Spider Mother?”
“After you killed Weaver, she keeled over and died. The bloody beast had already taken a lot of wounds, and the amount of hacking we did probably did not improve her health,” the Baron said. “We’ve won.”
“It’s over,” said Gilean.
“For the moment,” Kormak replied. He knew the war against the Shadow was never really over.
THE END
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William King lives in Prague, Czech Republic with his lovely wife Radka and his sons Dan and William Karel. He has been a professional author and games developer for almost a quarter of a century. He is the creator of the bestselling Gotrek and Felix series for Black Library and the author of the bestselling Space Wolf books which between them have sold over three quarters of a million copies in English and been translated into 8 languages.
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