Blood of the Redd Guard - Part One by Dan Decker

Author:Dan Decker [Decker, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

The warm breeze blew in through the open Rarbon Palace doors that were double the height and twice the width of a normal door, it caressed the face of Nelion Torez as it passed by and she sighed when she felt the warm breath of air.

Spending all day inside perusing ancient scrolls and books wasn’t how she preferred to spend her time, but it was what she had signed up for. She’d been hoping to find definitive proof that the Hunwei had existed and were going to return, but she seemed destined to spend her time working through old dusty tomes that provided anything but certainty because the authors all worked from the assumption that the Hunwei were real.

Neither of the guards standing to either side of the open doors took notice of her as she stepped past them and out into the courtyard. As soon as she stepped outside, she realized that she’d left her bag back in the Palace Archives and turned to go back the way she’d left, only to find two spears blocking her path.

The guards stared at her with cold expressions. She blushed. How could she have forgotten so quickly? She’d done the same thing just last week. Lucky for her, it had been a different set of guards on duty. Twice was just embarrassing.

“This is not the entrance,” said the guard to her right. Their uniforms were dark blue and their armor gleamed with the light of the falling sun. “If you need to go back in, you must use the north or south entrance. The hour is late and unless you have an invite to the ball you’ll have to run to make it in time.”

She muttered her apologies and left, cursing under her breath. The last time she’d almost taken a spear in the gut; the guard at the other end had been wearing a hopeful look on his face and she’d been curt rather than apologetic.

Ever since she’d taken this job as a scribe working for Professor Semal, she’d become more prone to getting lost in her thoughts. What would her mother say if she’d been here to witness this little forgetful episode? Nelion didn’t want to know. What were the chances that the story would get around?

Melyah, she thought, it’s almost guaranteed since I’ve done it twice now. She hoped it didn’t, but there wasn’t much she could do about it.

The guard was right about the lateness of the hour, she’d have to wait until tomorrow to retrieve her bag. She sighed again when the fact that it was almost sunset registered with her. She’d noticed it earlier, but the fact hadn’t set in until now.

As much as she enjoyed helping Professor Semal probe the secrets of the past, at times she found herself missing Korew army. It had been weeks since she'd last made the trip up to the civilian lookout atop the Inner Wall to see the sunset. When she'd been a soldier, she'd volunteered for

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