REBIRTH OF A WARRIOR

Chapter 17

I had been soaked in sweat, as if I had just come through a grueling ordeal. My actions had seemed to amuse him and he had started to laugh with an inhuman squalling cackle that was nerve jarring. He’d cackled insanely the rest of the time that remained before his match began.

Coming back to the present, I continued studying the hooded figure within the room, noticing the similarities I felt he shared with the crazed arena fighter from the past.

Suddenly, he spun in my direction seeming to sense my study of him somehow. I ducked below the window sill, and even though I was sure that I hadn’t been seen by him, I still felt exposed to the whole world as I clung to the side of the citadel beneath the window.

A pain filled cry emanated from inside the room, “Run Jasper! Save yourself!”

After a brief moment of hesitation, I flung myself recklessly back down the way I had come, vowing to myself to avenge Treorna’s suffering, if it was the last thing I ever did. I leaped onto the remaining ho