Final Voyage of the Remora by Richard S. Tuttle

Author:Richard S. Tuttle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Publisher: KBS
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Patriot Plan

General Daramoor sat in his office in the Royal Palace while he waited for the reports to come in. Major Garibaldi soon arrived with the bad news.

"She's gone," reported the major. "The guards reported that General Blackmoor entered with a female healer. They were only there for a few moments and then they left."

"Just the two of them left?" asked the general.

"Yes," nodded the major. "I asked the guards several times, but the answer was always the same. I can't figure out how it was done. Either the queen went out the window or the healer did, but no one could survive that fall."

"And there is no body on the rocks below?" the general asked already knowing what the answer would be.

"None," confirmed the major. "There are no marks from grappling hooks, and no fibers where a rope might have been used. It has me baffled."

"Unless it was magic," mused the general. "We should get K'san to investigate."

"I was getting to that," frowned the major. "We found blood stains in one of the corridors. Someone had tried to clean it up, but they must have been in a hurry. I had a search done of all the rooms on that corridor and we found the body of the priest in a storage room. It looked like someone had taken an axe to the back of his head."

"K'san?" balked the general. "Are you sure?"

"It isn't possible to mistake his body for someone else's," shrugged the major. "It was K'san alright."

"I wouldn't have thought that an axe would even harm him," the general said softly.

"You do know that Faldor was working with K'san, don't you?" asked the major.

"Oh, yes," nodded the general. "K'san liked to have many pokers in the fire at the same time. No doubt he was working Faldor and me against each other. I guess he found it amusing, but Faldor was not a real threat to me. As someone has already shown, he died easily enough."

"Is it possible that K'san made the queen disappear and then killed Faldor in some scheme of his?" asked Major Garibaldi.

"And then killed himself?" quipped the general. "I don't think so. Faldor's death was not at the hands of K'san. I don't think the priest would stoop to using a knife, and Faldor could never summon the strength to kill K'san. No, the key to this whole puzzle is the mysterious General Blackmoor."

"I sent runners out to all the gates," stated the major. "General Blackmoor left the city on the Calusa Road. The healer was with him as well as four escorts. One of the escorts spoke about a war with Karamin, but that makes no sense to me."

"So," mused General Daramoor, "was she the queen or the healer?"

"No way to tell," shrugged the major. "She wore a hood the entire time. No one ever saw her face. Whichever one it was, where is the other?"

"Actually," sighed the general, "we do not know the location of either of them, but we now know that one of them has left the city.

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