Heir to a Distant Land: A Young Adult Fantasy Romance (Here To There Book 3) by J.R. Rain & H.P. Mallory

Author:J.R. Rain & H.P. Mallory [Rain, J.R. & Mallory, H.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rain Press
Published: 2022-06-16T23:00:00+00:00

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Elle

“This changes things,” Sasha said.

I sat in the large yurt used as a council chamber by King Oscar (although the Pride was more of a dictatorship, so the ‘council’ was largely symbolic) and which he’d kindly leant to us for our own council of war.

“How?” I asked. “I mean, I know that kidnapping/rescuing Simon undermines Carl the Gray’s plans, but it doesn’t seem like it hurts him that much. Carl the Gray’s still the leader of the Bek, he’s still got the big army, and he still holds all the cards.”

“Yes and no,” said Sasha.

“Why is it never a simple answer?”

“Because it’s a complicated world,” Sasha replied. “Everything you say is true to a degree; the Gray still has all those advantages, yes. But it will be harder for him to cling to them without Simon. The Gray is not of the Bek bloodline. Traditionally, only someone of the bloodline can become Warlord, and even with his new wife giving him a tangential link to that bloodline, he hasn’t really got a leg to stand on. Simon gave him legitimacy. Not a legal legitimacy, but the blessing of an actual god will take you a long way.”

“Particularly a god that everyone is scared of?” I suggested.

“Precisely. Carl the Gray has no right to be the Warlord of the Bek but if the prophet of Seligar says it’s okay, then no one is going to question it. Without Simon standing next to him, conferring that blessing, then people will start asking questions, and the Gray’s position starts to look shaky. And if a prophet can get kidnapped that easily, then people also start to ask whether he was really a prophet in the first place. For example, why is no one being incinerated by unholy lightning?”

“You mean us.”

Sasha nodded. “The point is, the Gray will want Simon back. The even bigger point is, I suspect he can find Simon.”

Though I hadn’t said anything, I’d worried this might be the case. It was Simon who’d been responsible for me being brought to the Second Land in the first place. He’d come under the influence of Carl the Gray, who controlled him via psychic hypnotism. This had meant that the Gray could locate Simon with the power of his mind. Simon no longer seemed to be under the Gray’s control, but it was hard to be sure.

“You think Carl the Gray still has his claws in Simon?”

“I don’t know,” admitted Sasha on a shrug. “I don’t know if all this ‘prophet of Seligar’ talk is real or just the Gray’s influence.”

Simon hadn’t known either, it was all a blur to him.

“How many people are living in his head, I don’t know,” Sasha went on, “but for now, everything said in this room is a secret from Simon. The bad news is that that means we can’t stop here long, or we give the Bek a map to where the lions have been hiding. The good news is that we can use this to our advantage.

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