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.He stood before the whole city, sounding as if he was prepared to take them all on.She held onto the feeling as she watched him, praying the whole time to Sekolah.Awe filled her at the audacity Iakhovas showed.He was more sahuagin than any she'd ever met before."You can't break that wall," one of the other princes stated."I can," Iakhovas replied hotly, "and I will.I won't sit back and quietly be a coward while pretending to be a prince.""You go too far!" Toomaaek roared."I'm going far enough to tear that wall down," Iakhovas promised, "and I won't stop short of that.Any sahuagin warrior who wants to take up arms and follow me to freedom is welcome.""The sea elves are too powerful," Maartaaugh said."They have magic and numbers and allies.""Then we'll get our own magic and our own allies." Iakhovas didn't move away from the table, but Laaqueel knew he was no longer talking only to the princes.His words were for the ears of the crowd."Those things are out there.Sekolah gives power to his priestesses, and there are others out there who resent the sea elves controlling so much of Seros with their machinations.The sea elves have grown fat and lazy, complacent in the inability of We Who Eat of the Alamber Sea to do anything other than send a few groups of warriors across the Sharksbane Wall every now and again."Hoarse, ragged cheers started up from the crowd intermittently.Laaqueel struggled to keep a smile from her face.The knot of fear still sitting sourly in her stomach made it easier."I will raise up an army," Iakhovas vowed, "an army the likes of which Seros and the lands around it have never seen before.That army will spend its blood and that of its enemies, and the sea will run red because of it." He turned and raked his eye over the crowd, his posture proud and erect."For those of you who will follow me, I will lead you to greater glory than you've ever known.I will teach you again what it means to be a warrior, to truly be one of the Great Shark's chosen."The crowd came alive, and the cheering clicks and whistles echoed everywhere.Sahuagin picked up fist-sized rocks and slammed them together to make even more noise.The poundings punctuated the cheers.The smile broke through Laaqueel's defenses and spread across her lips.She gazed across the crowd in wonderment.Surely this was a sign.No one could have walked into Vahaxtyl and claimed the city's populace in so short a time.Iakhovas flung a hand back toward the princes' table."Warriors, blood of Sekolah's chosen, up until now you have been robbed of the heritage to become true members of We Who Eat as the Great Shark would have wanted.These princes and others like them have held you captive here like prawns in sea elf farms."Toomaaek tried to silence the crowd but failed.Laaqueel watched as the sahuagin whipped themselves into a frenzy.Fresh anger fed off the fear and confusion that had been left over by the destruction of their city.Iakhovas offered them enemies and a chance to strike back at those enemies at a time when they felt the need to do something.War came naturally to the sahuagin."If you continue to follow them," Iakhovas went on, "you'll overpopulate these waters in time.Or you'll curtail the population so that won't happen, kill your young yourselves and deprive yourselves of the army you will need in the future to conquer Seros."The cheering turned thunderous, but somehow Iakhovas could speak over it even though the Vahaxtyl princes couldn't."Sekolah found the sahuagin," Iakhovas said, "and he freed them from the shell that was their prison then.Do you think he freed you to find another prison in which to live?""No!" filled the water from the throats of thousands of sahuagin."We Who Eat were born free," Iakhovas said."Our heritage is to die free, cleaving the hearts of our enemies and gnawing the flesh from their broken bones!"The cheering drowned out all other sound.Toomaaek swam over the table and finned down beside Iakhovas, stirring silt with his splayed feet.The prince raised his trident in an open threat.Instantly, the cheering started to subside.Slowly, Iakhovas turned to face the Vahaxtyl prince.He stared at the warrior and waited silently.All voices from the crowd had died away when Toomaaek spoke."I say you speak lies, Iakhovas of the Claarteeros Sea.Whatever brought you here, it wasn't Sekolah.Your purpose isn't to guide We Who Eat to a greater destiny.You seek only to make our people throw their lives away.""I speak the truth," Iakhovas replied."Then pick up your weapon and defend yourself," the sahuagin prince ordered."I claim blood combat against any champion you care to name."Iakhovas regarded the warrior [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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