Accorded Nobility by Daniel Schinhofen

Author:Daniel Schinhofen [Schinhofen, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Published: 2022-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-nine

“What happened?” Giralt asked when Sean and Hallie entered the dining room.

“I’ll explain in a few minutes,” Sean replied.

A minute after Sean and Hallie were seated, the staff brought in dinner. Sean asked for a couple of extra bottles of wine, and then to be left alone. Sean and Giralt served themselves so their wives could. The maids were swiftly back with the extra wine, then gone again.

“Met with him. He’s an old Fey. Said he was alive during the Queens’ War,” Sean said.

“Oh goodness...” Fiona whispered. “I thought he’d died.”

“Nope. He’s alive. Even has a daughter in Accord, he said.”

“If I’d known it was that Iceblood, I would have cautioned you,” Fiona said. “He’s killed people who mentioned his injury.”

“Healed that,” Sean said before taking a bite of salad.

“They say one of Summer’s personal guards broke it, fracturing his magic in that leg,” Fiona said.

“Looked bad. Took a lot to fix,” Sean nodded.

“This is the Lord who froze a man alive?” Giralt asked as he put pieces together.

“Yes,” Fiona said.

That had the entire table worried.

“Sean did fine,” Hallie smiled. “Honestly, it might have gone wrong when Sean asked to heal him. They made an Agreement with Sean’s life in the balance, but it was based on him healing the leg.”

Indrawn breaths came from a few when Sean’s life was mentioned as the balance, but then, they exhaled. Grins went around the table, all knowing what he could do.

“Anyway, he owes me a favor,” Sean shrugged. “We’ll have another letter for Amedee, and a letter to Iceblood’s daughter.”

“I thought he’d died when I was in the academy,” Fiona said. “I heard an Iceblood had died around then.”

“Might have been his wife,” Sean suggested. “He looks sad whenever family was mentioned. His goal with Amedee was a car for his daughter.”

“Oh... that might explain it,” Fiona said before she began to eat.

“I think your husband will dote on my grandchildren even more,” Mizuki grinned.

“Without a doubt,” Myna smiled.

“How bad was his leg?” Giralt asked.

“Terrible. The bone had been shattered and it was knitted back together… badly. The muscle, tendons, ligaments, and other soft tissues were in even worse shape. His veins had survived enough to keep the leg alive... that might have been what past healers managed for him. The real trouble was his power.” Sean paused to eat a bit more.

“His power was in his leg?” Giralt asked, then took a bite of his fish.

“No, which was part of the problem. It should have been. I’m pretty sure what I know is a secret to his family. His power follows a system of vein-like channels along his bones. The ones in his injured leg were fragmented into shards. I had to grab those shards and piece them back into a complete channel again. And it was cold…” Sean shivered a little as he recalled the chill of the power he’d touched.

“You touched his power?” Ryann laughed.

“Had to to fix him,” Sean said.

“You can use it now?” Ida asked, understanding why Ryann laughed.

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