01 The Orc King by Forgotten Realms

Author:Forgotten Realms [Realms, Forgotten]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-04-10T16:03:08.112000+00:00

Interesting, Jack said to Hakuun's mind when they walked away from their quiet little meeting with Toogwik Tuk, one in which Jack had used the power of magical suggestion to complement Hakuun's spells of lie detection, allowing the dual being to extract much more honest answers from Toogwik Tuk than the young shaman had ever meant to offer. So the conspirators have not brought you here to enhance Obould's forces. "We must tell Grguch," Hakuun whispered. Tell him what? That we have come to do battle? "That our venture into the Moonwood and now against the dwarves will likely anger Obould." Inside his head, Hakuun could feel Jack laughing. orcs plotting against orcs, Jack silently related. orcs manipulating orcs to plot against orc s. All of this will be surprising news to old Chieftain Grguch, I am sure. Hakuun's determined stride slowed, his tailwind stolen by Jack's cynical sarcasm - sarcasm effective only because it held the ring of truth. Let the play play, said Jack. The plots of the conspirators will be bent to our favor when we need them to be. For now, all the risk is theirs, for Clan Karuck is unwitting. If they have played the part of fools to even consider such a plot, their 185 189 fall will be enjoyable to witness. If they are not fools, then all to our gain. "Our gain?" said Hakuun, emphasizing Jack's inclusion into it all. "For as long as I am interested," Hakuun's voice replied, though it was Jack who controlled it. A not-so-subtle reminder, Hakuun understood, of who was leading whom.

CHAPTER 17 DEFINING GRUUMSH

Chieftain Dnark did not miss the simmer behind King Obould's yellow eyes whenever the orc king 's glance happened his and Ung-thol's way. Obould was continually repositioning his forces, which all of the chieftains understood was the king's way of keeping them in unfamiliar territory, and thus, keeping them dependent upon the larger kingdom for any real sense of security. Dnark and Ung-thol had rejoined their clan, the tribe of the Wolf Jaw, only to learn that Obould had summoned them to work on a defensive position north of Keeper's Dale, not far from where Obould had settled to ride out the fleeting days of winter. As soon as Obould had met Wolf Jaw at the new site, the wise and perceptive Dnark understood that there had been more to that movement than simple tactical repositioning, and when he'd first met the orc king's gaze, he had known beyond doubt that he and Ung-thol had been the focus of Obould's decision. The annoying Kna squirmed around his side, as always, and shaman Nuk kels kept to a respectful two paces behind and to his god-figure's left. That meant that Nukkels's many shamans were filtered around the common warriors accompanying the king. Dnark presumed that all of the orcs setting up Obould's three-layered tent were fanatics in the service of Nukkels. Obould launched into his expected tirade about the importance of the mountain ridge

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