Episode 3: Send in the Clouds

By Leigh Barker

Eden: Requiem For Eden

Season 1: Episode 3. Send in the Clouds

Another 1-hour read following our young Knights of Eden.

Gabriel leads the four newly graduated knights guarding The Lady Bony Ass and her unborn baby as they cross the Purple Plain to safety. They think their clandestine exit from Trinity has gone unobserved.

They are wrong. An army of bandits and drunks are in hot pursuit, determined to claim some of the ransom the daughter and granddaughter of The Magnus Caseus will fetch.

Four young knights, an old Guardian and an angry princess against a horde of brigands is bad, very bad.

But Lucid, the son of Satan, has now taken an interest. And things are going to get very, very ugly.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leigh Barker
• Release date: Feb 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310602399

Leigh Barker

Leigh was born in Dudley in the middle of England. He has been a merchant seaman, a (useless) electronics salesman, a programmer, and a business analyst. And now he is a full-time writer, but that doesn't make him a bad person.He is presently writing 4 series:Clan, following the adventures of Calum Maclean as he tries to avoid the Bonnie Prince but still protect his beloved Highlands.The Hellfire Legacy Series follows US Marine Master Sergeant Ethan Gill and his team as they take on the jobs too hot for other special forces. They go where they're sent; South America, Middle East, Korea, but their most dangerous missions are on US soil.Volume #1: A Whisper of ArmageddonVolume #2: The Hellfire LegacyVolume #3: The Orpheus DirectiveEden, a three-volume series -Trinity is at war with Lucid, the son of Lucifer, and he will do whatever it takes to win. The Archangel Gabriel has an army but he needs more. He needs heroes, but they are few and far between. Which is why he gets Dylan and co. Not too much luck in Heaven then.Volume #1: Eden's Last HeroVolume #2: WinterwoodVolume #3: Requiem for Eden.Soldiers is set in 1914 and follows John Regret and his 12-man squad on their suicidal mission to find and destroy the German howitzer nicknamed Big Bertha. Find it before it drops it's thousand-pound shells on the allied army retreating across France. A seemingly hopeless mission that just cannot fail.Other occasional series include:Anarchy, the 'completely true' stories of men doing what men do when there's nobody to keep them in check. Create mayhem and behave like monkeys on speed.Coffee Break Reads - each issue has 5 stories short enough to read while taking a break from life. A mix of adventure, love, disaster, and fun. All with one thing in common; for a moment they transport the reader to another world.Episode 1 of each Season is free and can be picked up with other free books at:https://leighwbarker.com/my-library/Just copy the link above and paste it into your browser and you're there...

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Requiem for Eden

(Episode 3)

Send in the Clouds

Copyright 2015 Leigh Barker

Published by Leigh Barker at Smashwords

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ISBN: 9781310602399

Send in the Clouds

Woe pointed at the horizon and Gabriel turned in his saddle. He could see people on the horizon, and more appearing every second. Not good, was one of the thoughts that jumped into his mind. The other being a quick calculation as to how many he could shorten by, say, a head, before they killed him a few times. The answer was a lot, but the same calculation showed there would still be a lot left.

Maybe they’re not hostile, said Anella, riding up to join them.

Come for a party, perhaps, Sita suggested, though not very convincingly.

They are here for her, Gabriel said, nodding towards the carriage.

"Her has a name," said Lady Amara sharply.

Gabriel glanced at her and then looked back up at the horizon. There were maybe a hundred little people lined up on the rocky ridge. And one thing was for certain, they were only little because of the distance, even he could work that one out. He stepped down off his mount and drew his broadsword from the scabbard across his back.

Anella gasped and shook her head. You can’t be planning to stand against that lot!

What makes you even think they’re coming after Bony… the lady? asked Tanwa, squinting against the bright sun, now almost directly overhead. They could just be out for a…

Exactly.

There was a rocky outcrop a mile to the west of the ridge, where the newly arrived mob was milling around, trying to decide what to do next and who to send in first. Lextus the werewolf stepped onto the rocks and watched the men through eyes that saw every detail of them, even at that distance. A mob. He took a deep breath and let it out in a snarling sigh. He looked down at the wagon, stationary on the grassy plain, and at the man standing next to it. He smiled. There would be a lot less of the mob when that swordsman had finished with them. Then he could stroll in, kill off the survivors and take the prize back for the reward. After a while he’d sneak back and test the royal-baby-blood theory. He sat down. He stood up quickly. The sun was doing a good job of turning the rocks into baking stones. Standing was fine. This wouldn’t take long and would be fun to watch.

The mob on the ridge organised the sacrificial lambs, in the true democratic manner of… a