I Went on an Adventure and All I Got Was This Barbarian Orc: Crack Fantasy Adventure Chapter 2 by Jennifer Cody

Author:Jennifer Cody [Cody, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

After breakfast, we pack everything away and hop on our horses. Darian has to help Armus with his (the poor bard gets tangled in his reins again), and then as a group we start following the trail the viltz left in their wake heading south toward the Smos Mountains. While they didn’t take the road, their trail follows the road south toward Gladfield. Most of the land south of the farm house is fields, and it occurs to me as we’re passing the third one that we need to replace the family of farmers as quickly as possible, so I touch my earring, activating it so that Aleron can hear me.

“Non-emergent, but urgent.” That is how I tell him that what I need to say can wait.

Berklak walks beside my horse, sipping at the mead barrel on his shoulder. He closes the tap with a content smile, and I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone with such a simple sort of happiness. “I should have asked already, but did your charge get settled in at Bards College?”

Berklak swipes his mouth on the back of his hand before answering. “Yes. Oliver is now Oliver Sunglider, and he settled in without problem. He’s a snarky little ass sometimes, but I think that will serve him well in the future. People will like him and welcome him because he seems so unapproachable. He’ll be the man to conquer rather than the one who conquers, if that makes sense.”

“Certainly.” It makes perfect sense to me. Some men are unreachable and therefore desirable, and some are desirable because they make the person they pursue feel like they are the unattainable one.

“Prince Lawton, I’m with his majesty,” Aleron interrupts.

“Aleron,” I greet him so that Berklak knows I’ve switched conversation partners. “Please give my father my greetings.”

“Your majesty, the high sorcerer greets you,” Aleron immediately says, then after a pause adds to me. “His majesty would like a report.”

Of course. “We are heading south toward the Smos Mountains, but we need workers in the fields as soon as possible. Someone experienced with farming would be good. It’s a large farm.”

“I will make sure the alderman knows,” Aleron promises. “What did you find at the farm?”

“More of the same dark magic covering everything. It was viltzen that attacked, according to a witness. We’re tracking them now. I will report when we find out where they went to ground.”

“And the people I sent with you?”

“Wonderful,” I assure him. “The best choices for certain.”

“Good then. Report back later, and be careful, your highness,” he says with a kindness in his voice that I enjoy hearing from him. I would have liked it better if he was alone and could call me by name, but even his formal address sounds friendly most of the time, so I count it as a win. Plus it’s good for my father to see that not everyone treats me like an anathema.

“I will be, I swear.”

With that I touch the magic to disengage and return my attention to Berklak.

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