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Reaching the blackened brick, Clarissa pulled a fist-sized orb from her satchel. It glowed a faint red with swirling pink clouds shifting through its opaque surface.
Clarissa summoned a spell circle. She pushed the spell through the small object, shattering the orb into thousands of glistening fragments…only it made no sound.
I had not realized just how much noise was around me until it all vanished. The gentle wind combing through the grass, the chirping birds, the rustle of our clothes as we moved – all of it was gone.
Knowing her role, Yubelluna removed her hood and silently stepped forward. She summoned two spell circles before her and began blasting into the wall at a downward angle, though no matter how devastating her explosions became, not one of them made a sound.
Soon enough, a crumbling hole was made in the wall, allowing the three of us to slide through into the depths of the manor. Our perception of sound returned once we left the radius of Clarissa's charm.
We'd landed in a storeroom. Sacks of flour lay piled in the corner next to shelves filled with ale jugs and fruit. A simple wooden door was the only exit.
Clarissa held up a hand, halting us. She slunk towards the door, retrieving a green crystal from her robes as she did.
She amplified a spell circle through the stone and her eyes flashed the same color as the crystal. She held up four fingers. She pointed three fingers to her right, and one to her left.
Turning to Yubelluna, I pointed to her, then motioned to Clarissa's left. She nodded, and we both crept up to the door.
Meeting eyes with Clarissa, I nodded as she questioningly hefted a second orb like the one she'd used to muffle our entrance.
Clarissa cast her spell again and all sound disappeared once more.
Tearing the door open, I stepped out first. We were in a hallway with cobbled floors. Torch sconces of dark metal sat on the walls, illuminating hallways that lacked electricity. The corridor only led two ways – to our right, and to our left.
Four men patrolled the hall. Unlike the guards at the gate, these were obviously inhuman. Their skin was far too pale and their eyes were blood red.
They carried spears and polearms where the humans carried rifles. One was to the immediate left of the door.
Three were almost twenty feet down the right hallway. Only the guard near the door had noticed us. The rest of them had their backs turned.
Trusting Yubelluna to deal with the nearest guard as he began silently screaming for help, I conjured three fiery swords in the air before me.
I sent them flying forward with a gust of Wind, six flaming tendrils following in their wake. I stepped outside the silencing field to hear how much noise we caused as I sent my tendrils out.
Each of the swords found their marks, striking home with the sound of a butcher cleaving through a boar.
My tendrils quickly lashed around the guard's bodies and mouths, keeping them from screaming.
Clapping my hands together, I crushed the bodies in my fire whips. The fire passed through them like a knife through butter. They were dead before they even knew they were being attacked.
I used my tendrils to retrieve their bodies and weapons while I turned around. While my killing of the three guards had been relatively clean, Yubelluna obviously had some issues.
The stone floor lay in ruins around her. The door to the storeroom was nothing but splinters now.
She had to get violent to keep the guard from getting out of Clarissa's sphere of silence. No sound was made, but anyone who walked through here would know something was very wrong. There was nothing we could do about it now.
I abandoned my efforts to hide the guard's bodies and weapons and turned to Clarissa.
The witch pulled a wooden arrow from a pocket in her cloak and held it in her palm.
A spell circle lit under the arrow, causing it to float in the air. The arrow spun lazily around, coming to rest sixty degrees into the wall of the right corridor.
I nodded to my queen and bishop, and the three of us took off running down the right hall. Stealth was meaningless now.
The moment someone happened upon the destruction in the hallway the entire manor would be bearing down on us.
Clarissa followed behind me, the arrow still floating above the spell circle in her hand. The arrow's point slowly moved more to the left as we progressed down the hallway.
We came to an intersection, but the arrow was still too angled to take the left turn. Unfortunately, the intersection was occupied.
There were three more figures. Two were obviously more guards, but the third was shorter.
The young boy was swinging a wooden sword around to the amusement of his companions when we entered the intersection.
The guards reacted immediately, charging towards us screaming, "Intruders!"
"Yube!"
My queen stepped forward and the hallway exploded. The two guards were blasted into the walls, their spears falling uselessly to the ground.
Drawing my sword, I rushed to the nearest one, rearing back to strike. My hand stilled when I saw the wide-eyed fearful gaze of the young boy.
He was shaking in terror, looking disbelievingly between my sword and the man who'd been laughing with him just moments earlier.
My bleeding heart was going to get us killed.
Rather than skewering the guard, I slammed the hilt of my sword into his head hard enough to send his entire body sliding five feet.
Moving quickly, I did the same to the other guard, stopping Yubelluna from slagging him. I didn't want the kid to watch me gut these two, so I used Batman maiming logic. Our cover was blown anyway.
I felt a tingling against my mind as my sword spoke in amusement.
Mercy. A devil showing mercy.
Not the time! I screamed back in my mind, dragging Clarissa and Yubelluna down the hall the arrow was pointing.
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