The Reaper's Voyage

Chapter 12

Delyth knew Ruadhan wasn't going to let the whole fiasco go. In fact, he showed exactly how upset he still is about it by commanding Tiarnan to make her decision to be a guard the worst decision in her life. Four days and Delyth showed that she is not backing down. Tiarnan pushed her to do more and she pushed back harder to prove she can handle any challenge she is faced with.

If he is honest with himself, Tiarnan is impressed by her perseverance. Few of the men he's trained or trained with have that quality. Most of them just puff their chests out and measure their dicks thinking that makes them a man. In the six days, Delyth showed them the true meaning of a man and the drive to be a soldier and they hated her for it. Still hate her for it. He watches as they try to push her back 'in her lane' and to 'do her duty as a woman'. Every day they taunt her for playing dress up and 'trying to be a man'.

Tiarnan has had to ward her against doing anything that could get her in trouble. She is still being watched by Ruadhan after all. Six days and she's learned more in her lifetime than she ever did. Lashing out in anger would prove how unable she is to keep her emotions in check as a woman. It takes everything in her not to grab them by their balls and twist at an unbelievable angle.

She has never had to deal with this kind of behavior in Naelund, so coming here and being treated like this is new to her. She doesn't know it but Tiarnan has been trying his best to lay men off her. There's only so much a glare can do. They still try to corner her and get her alone, especially in the showers when Tiarnan is not close by. Which is not very often.

The men, however, have been up Tiarnan's back wondering if he's scored her in his bed yet. To their dismay, he hasn't rewarded them with an answer and orders them back to their positions.

"Let's go! Up. Up. Faster, you worms." Tiarnan bellows from below them as he orders them to climb up the wall. It is not an easy thing for Delyth to do because she didn't grow up around walls. Even if she did, who in their right mind looks at a wall and thinks it would be fun to climb it? As far as she is taught, they evolved from apes not spiders.

"Aiken, you may look like a woman but right now you are a man with an arrow pointing at your back," Tiarnan tells her.

Confused, Delyth turns her head to look for said arrow and sees none. Out of nowhere, something zooms past her and lands on the side of the wall. It was an actual arrow. She loses her grip from the rope and falls from the wall landing on her side.

Tiarnan walks over to her side and looms over her body while she grits her teeth in pain. "Are you okay?"

She nods, rubbing the side that aches. His eyes scan her body to make sure nothing is badly injured. Satisfied that she seems fine, he nods and straightens his posture. "Good, now go back and climb that wall. You will do it over and over until you can no longer feel your arms."

Delyth sighs and her head falls in exhaust. She stands to her feet, shakes her arms and rolls her shoulders. When she approaches the wall, she looks at it, her eyes squinting as the rays from the sun hit her directly in the face almost blinding her. Tiarnan watches her with interest and folds his lips trying to stop the laugh that threatens to escape.

Adorable, he thinks to himself.

She takes a hold of the rope and pulls herself up the wall. Tiarnan and Ruadhan's Commander, Cillian, watch the only woman in the bunch try and fail at climbing the wall. It was getting sad that it carried on until the sun went down.

"And you say you believe in her?" Cillian says, not being able to look away from Delyth's attempt to climb the way. She is only half-way up.

"Have faith in her, Cillian. We were once like her." The knight thinks on his words and realizes how right he is. They were once scrawny skeletons, climbing the wall with trembling legs and arms. The difference was they weren't half as determined and headstrong when they first started as Delyth is.