Dragonspeaker Chronicles Box Set by Patty Jansen

Author:Patty Jansen [Jansen, Patty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Capricornica Publications
Published: 2019-03-03T22:00:00+00:00

He pulled her aside, into the darkness of the box.

“What are you doing here?” he asked, his voice little more than a whisper.

“I only found out that apparently I’m supposed to have poisoned Lord Verdonck.”

“You are risking your life by coming here. If I were you, I would run as far away from the palace as possible.”

She didn’t like his tone at all.

“You don’t believe that I poisoned the Lord, do you?”

He glared at her. “I consider whatever proof we are given.”

Nellie couldn’t believe her ears. “So you believe these lies the Regent tells?”

“I look at evidence. We know who came to Lord Verdonck’s room. We know who was at the banquet. We know where the food came from—”

“But do you know which item was poisoned?”

He glared at her.

“That would be a start, if you knew that. Or you knew the type of poison and who has it—”

“Don’t tell me how to do my job.”

“Then do your job. Look at the most obvious possibility. Who supplied most of the food and wine? Who was there to help serve it?”

“You want to blame the church? What happened to you? Is that what your father told you? Your father left the church because he was disgraced. He attempted to overstep his boundaries as accountant, so he could dictate what the church bought, which should be the shepherd’s decision. And it should be the Regent’s decision. No one else can see their plan for this city. I don’t need to remind you that the church keeps us safe from magic, and the Regent keeps us safe from the bandits that roam the countryside. He has made the city a safe haven. I don’t need to remind you of how scarce imports from other lands have become. Produce can’t come through. The traders see no more reason to stay in our town. The Regent has a plan to fix all that. The Regent is my superior. I don’t always agree with what he says, but I have to listen to him, because he has the best interests of the people at heart.”

“You genuinely believe that?”

“And you do not? You think he came here out of his own free will, just because somebody needed this job to be done? He had to be asked, and he agreed, and he did not want to come here, and especially his wife did not want to come here.”

Well, he was right on that latter statement.

“He came here because—” and then she stopped.

There was no point in arguing with him.

He did not understand, he did not want to see the depth of deceit that these men were playing on the people of the city. There was nothing she, an old woman, could say about the situation that would make him believe it. She would have to show it to him another way, or not at all. Whatever their relationship might have been, whatever course it had been on, it was not to be. There was no point in pursuing any of this.

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