Enchanted Folklore: the Complete Series by Beth Bolden

Author:Beth Bolden [Bolden, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

To Rory’s surprise, Diana came to fetch him, short of breath and with panic in her eyes, the very next morning. “Marthe needs you,” she said, giving Rory a quick, perfunctory bow that made Rory’s heartbeat accelerate with uncertainty in his chest. The only one of his guard who was more of a stickler for protocol than Marthe was Diana. So the fact that she essentially eschewed it this time in favor of speed did not bode well at all.

“Is everything alright?” Rory asked as he and Diana, with an accompanying Anya, hurried in the direction of the throne room.

Diana’s expression was grim. She led them past the throne room and they stopped in the hallway, where they had entered Beaulieu six months ago, trying to surprise Sabrina and defeat her before any of the armies could engage. The grate had been pulled open, and Rory could see the flickering of torches in the dark tunnel below.

“You must see what we discovered,” she said, and refused to say anything further as she held out an arm to assist Rory in descending down to the tunnel below. Within moments, Anya and Diana had followed him, and his eyes slowly growing accustomed to the dim light from several torches, posted a few dozen feet apart down the length of the dank sewer.

“Follow me,” Diana said, and picking up one of the torches from the makeshift holder, led them in a direction that Rory was fairly sure was opposite of the one they’d taken that fateful day.

“How did you find it?” Anya asked.

“We started here, in the sewer, as that seemed the most obvious method of entry from the castle itself,” Diana said as they picked their way down the waterlogged stone. “It did not take us very long to find it.” She shuddered, and Rory was sure, with a growing sense of dread, that it wasn’t because she was cold, even though there was a distinct chill in the air down below.

Finally, they emerged into a central meeting of several of the large pipes, and there, at the very end of the most forward tunnel, stood Marthe, a bleak look on her face.

“Your Majesty,” she said, inclining her head. “I have found what you requested.” She gestured, indicating the large metal door that had blocked Sabrina’s lair off from the rest of the tunnels.

“Should we not go inside?” Rory asked.

Marthe hesitated. “Your Majesty, we can collapse this tunnel and everything in it, and ensure that the likelihood of it being found and anything inside it ever being used again would be extremely slim.”

“But you said earlier, just yesterday in fact, that you thought we should use it to expose Sabrina as the dark witch that she was,” Rory objected. He’d been hoping that with the execution of her plan, he could enact his own, and ensure that his and Gray’s future was as happy and joyful as he’d always hoped it would be. But now instead Marthe wished to close all the

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