Rainy Daze
By Dan McGirt
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A Jason Cosmo Tale of fantasy adventure! Fleeing the Dark Magic Society's minions, fledgling hero Jason Cosmo, ill-tempered wizard Mercury Boltblaster, and winsome twins Sapphrina and Rubis brave the dangers of the wilderness between Darnk and Brythalia. They seek shelter from an epic rainstorm and hungry monsters—but maybe ducking into that mysterious cavern wasn't such a good idea after all ... some secrets are buried for a reason.
Rainy Daze is a humorous novella tale set between chapters of Hero Wanted, the first book in the comical Jason Cosmo fantasy adventure series of novels. This story can be enjoyed on its own or before, during or after reading Hero Wanted.
The Jason Cosmo Fantasy Adventure Series:
1. Hero Wanted
2. Noble Cause
3. Royal Crush
Dan McGirt
Dan McGirt is the author of the Jason Cosmo fantasy adventure series, the Jack Scarlet action-adventure series, Sarah Palin: Vampire Hunter and assorted other tales, some sordid, most not. His most recent story is Glass Darkly & The Skull in the Box, an occult mystery short story.When not writing, Dan enjoys whitewater kayaking, long walks in the forest, and building homemade time machines.
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Rainy Daze - Dan McGirt
Rainy Daze
A Jason Cosmo Tale
Dan McGirt
Rainy Daze
© Copyright Dan McGirt, 2009
All Rights Reserved
Published by Trove Books LLC
TroveBooks.com
Smashwords Edition 1.2, January 2016
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Jason Cosmo Fantasy Adventures
1: Hero Wanted
2: Noble Cause
3: Royal Crush
4: Dirty Deeds (Fall 2016)
Jason Cosmo Tales
Rainy Daze
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Table of Contents
Rainy Daze
Author’s Note
About the Author
More by Dan McGirt
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Rainy Daze
True to Mercury’s prediction, it rained the next day. And the next. And the day after that. The downpour did not relent for five rainy days. The Longwash overspilled its banks, sweeping aside boulders and trees as it rampaged southward. The rising water forced us to abandon the track beside the river for higher ground. Alert for flash floods and mudslides, we picked our way along the hilltops. — Hero Wanted (Chapter 7)
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This is not good,
said Mercury Boltblaster.
Do you mean the rain?
I asked.
It was unfriendly rain, heavy, cold, and stinging. A rain that soaked us to the skin while slowing our pace out of dismal Darnk from headlong flight to fretful trot to tedious trudge.
I mean everything,
said the dusky-skinned wizard.
Like you being hunted by the Dark Magic Society?
Yes.
And me being the most wanted man in the Eleven Kingdoms?
That too.
Our violent encounters with the mercenary Black Bolts, that terrorist Zaran Zimzabar, and Natalia Slash?
All of it,
said Merc. Plus having those two along.
He jerked his thumb to indicate the other members of our party, riding a few yards behind as we followed the narrow river road up a muddy hill. I turned in the saddle for a better view through the wind-lashed raindrops. Sapphrina and Rubis were sisters, identical twins from Zastria, golden of tress, blue of eye, brown of limb, shapely of figure, and sopping wet. Sapphrina wore blue, Rubis red. Their scanty tunics, already so tight they might have been painted on, had shrunk and become partially translucent in the rain.
I don’t see the problem,
I said.
I’m sure you don’t,
said Mercury. By the way, you’re about to ride off the road.
I tore my gaze from the twins and nudged my horse back from the ledge. It was a steep drop down the hillside. Below seethed the raging, racing, rain-racked River Longwash.
They’ve been no trouble at all,
I said. And we did pledge to escort them to safety.
You pledged. I begrudgingly acquiesced.
Merc, they were kidnapped, sold into slavery, and chained up in a tower until we rescued them! Helping them get home is the only decent thing to do!
I didn’t say we should abandon them here in the wilderness,
said Merc, in a tone that suggested exactly that. I said I don’t like having them along.
I again glanced over my shoulder. Sapphrina brushed a long strand of wet hair back from her face. Our eyes met. She smiled. I smiled back.
I do.
You won't like it so much when the Black Bolts catch us,
said Merc.
I snapped my head around. How do you know they’re still chasing us?
For one thing, this is the only road out of Darnk.
All roads lead from Darnk,
I said, nodding.
What?
It’s a saying we have.
Merc scowled. What does that even mean? There is only one road to and from Darnk. We’re on it, and so are the Black Bolts.
But we left them in Whiteswab days ago. For all they know, we headed east.
Deeper into Darnk?
Merc scoffed. I doubt even I could withstand the stench of central Darnk — and I've ventured to some foul locales indeed.
The slime bogs are a bit rank this time of year,
I admitted.
"That aside, the Black Bolts know we were in Offal because Dylan left two of his