Heir to the Survivor. Chapter 1 from The Well of Ascencion
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the well of ascension. Book two of the MS bourne trilogy. A book by Brandon Sanderson. Produced by Tor publishing. Read to you by Jack Ivy Part one. Air of the Survivor. I write these words in steel. For anything not set in metal cannot be trusted. Chapter One The army crept like a dark stain across the horizon. King Ellen Venture stood motionless upon the luth. Adele city wall looking out at the enemy troops around him. Ash fell from the sky and fat, lazy flakes. It wasn't the burnt white ash that one saw in dead coals. This was a deeper, harsher black ash. The ash mounts have been particularly active lately. Ellen felt the ash dust his face and clothing, but he ignored it in the distance. The bloody red sun was close to setting it back. Let the army that had come to take Ellen's kingdom away from him. How many island? Asked quietly. 50,000, we think Ham said, leaning against the parapet, beefy arms folded on the stone. Like everything in the city, the wall had been stained black by countless years of ash falls 50,000 soldiers, Ellen said, trailing off. Despite heavy recruitment, Ellen barely had 20,000 men under his command. And they were peasants with less than a year of training, maintaining even that small number was straining his resources. If they'd been able to find the Lord rulers. ADM perhaps things would be different and it was Ellen's rule was in serious danger of economic disaster. What do you think, Ellen asked. I don't know, L hamm said quietly Kelsey was always the one with the vision. But you helped him, Elinor said. You and the others. You were his crew. You were the ones who came up with a strategy for overthrowing the empire. Then made it happen. Ham fell silent and Ellen felt as if he knew what the man was thinking. Kelso was central to it all. He was the one who organized the one who took all of the wild brainstorming and turned it into a viable operation. He was the leader, the genius and he died a year before on the very same day that the people, as part of his secret plan had risen up in a fury to overthrow their God Emperor. Ellen had taken the throne in the ensuing chaos. But now it was looking more and more like he would lose everything that Kelsey and his crew had worked so hard to accomplish, lose it to a tyrant who might even be worse than the lord ruler. A petty devious bully in noble form. The man had marched his army on Luther. Adele. Ellen's own father strafing venture any chance you can talk him out of attacking ham? Asked Maybe, said Ellen, hesitantly, assuming the assembly doesn't just surrender the city. They're close. I don't know honestly. I worry that they are. The army has frightened them him and with good reason he thought anyway, I have a proposal for the meeting in two days. I'll try to talk them out of doing anything rash toxin back today. Right, ham nodded just before the army's advance. I think we should call a meeting of the crew. Ellen said, See if we can come up with any way out of this will be pretty shorthanded, Ham, said, rubbing his chin. *****. Isn't supposed to be back for another week. And the Lord ruler only knows where Brees went. We haven't had a message from him in months. Ellen sighed, shaking his head. I can't think of anything else. Ham! He turned, staring over the ash and landscape again. The army was lighting campfires as the sunset. Soon the mists would appear. I need to get back to the palace and work on that proposal. Ellen thought, where'd Vin runoff to ham? Asked, turning back to Ellen. Ellen paused. You know, he said. I'm not sure.