King's War by Jill Williamson

Author:Jill Williamson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy;FIC042080;FIC009030;FIC009020
ISBN: 9781441230867
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2018-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

Grayson

Grayson popped into the council chambers and instantly lost his grip on the woman he’d rescued. Sosovik rushed forward and took her in his arms.

“What is wrong with her?” the queen asked.

“They gave her something to drink so she couldn’t move,” Grayson said. “Someone call the healer.” He thought better of that. “I’ll go.”

“Why not carry her straight to the infirmary?” the queen said.

That was a better idea. Grayson reached for the woman, but Sosovik turned away. “She must go to the physician,” Grayson said in Puru. “She’s sick.”

“Nu mokto,” Sosovik said. “Pam nu sewa.”

His sister? Grayson drew in a deep breath, wearied by all his traveling. “I will take you both.” He wrapped his arms around Sosovik, the woman between them. He popped to the infirmary and explained to the physician as best he could, then returned to the council chambers and fell into a chair at the table. Three of the young children were giggling as they chased one another around the table. The rest were playing on the floor. The Puru women were lined along one wall.

King Trevn pulled out the chair beside Grayson and sat down. “That last one took a while,” the king said. “What happened?”

Grayson told the king how he had tracked the hunters to the village in hopes of finding the queen’s missing Puru children. He described the temple pyramid, the Puru captives in the pit, the new ones in the wagon, how he’d brought them to Armanguard, then gone back to the pyramid and witnessed the sacrifice, how Barthel Rogedoth had been there, and how Grayson had rescued the orange-haired woman in the middle of the ceremony.

A vein in the king’s neck pulsed. “Didn’t I tell you not to carry anyone through the Veil until I gave you leave?”

Grayson cowered. “You had me carry Lady Islah, so I thought—”

“My wife asked you to find the Puru children when she first came to Armanguard? And you’ve been at it ever since? Working entirely on your own?”

“Yes, sir,” Grayson said. “I report to the queen whenever I have new information.”

“And when did you last report new information?”

Grayson winced, certain he was about to get the queen in more trouble. “Yesterday.”

“Yesterday,” the king said with a glance at his wife.

“I didn’t mean to cause trouble,” the queen said.

The king released a pent-up sigh. “I sensed you were hiding something,” he said. “Perhaps I should re-crown you Queen Regent, and I will be your consort, since you seem to think yourself above me.”

“I don’t think that.”

“I specifically forbade you from looking for the Puru children, and all this time you had Grayson looking, behind my back. House Hadar has a word for that type of behavior. Can you guess it?”

Mielle shook her head.

“Treason,” the king said.

Grayson shrank back in his chair. He didn’t like hearing the king and queen fight and wished they’d do it elsewhere. Some of the Puru children looked afraid.

“He was only to look on his free time,” Mielle said. “And I planned to ask your advice once I knew something worthwhile.

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