Knight 42 by BR Sebastian

Author:BR Sebastian [Sebastian , BR]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

The Blooding

Mage Knight 42 might well have gone after Maerwynn but Balderon was there beside him before he could. The mage greeted his other two knights but he had eyes for only his apprentice. “Come with me 42,” he commanded. “There is one thing we must do, and I would have it done tonight.”

“As you say, magnus.”

The two of them left the gathering together. When they were well gone 37 turned to 32. “The magnus could have cared less that we were here,” he grumbled.

“Can you blame him, really?”

“Perhaps not,” 37 conceded. “But he’s got his claws into 42 so deeply. I don’t care for it. You know as well as I do our lord is ruthless. What will he require of him now that his magic is awake? Zounds man, did you see what he did there tonight? 42’s magic is beyond imagining, and it is only now just coming awake. With such a weapon in his hands, what will our lord’s next move be?”

32 was less concerned about it. “You understand how things have changed now, don’t you? You and I serve 42, and he serves the mage. I place my faith in him, in 42 I’m saying. What he asks of me, I will do. He is moral.”

“He is moral now,” 37 once again countered. “But will he always be?”

32 eyed his companion coolly. He repeated, “I place my faith in 42. I confess, I love the man.”

Upstairs, Balderon and 42 had entered the magnus's suite of rooms. The steward, who’d looked relieved when they left, looked frightened by their early return. They entered the drawing room. “42, remain here,” Balderon instructed. “Spend the next time in meditation, in oneness with your magic. I have preparations to make.” He turned a haughty eye on the servant. “Steward, you will come with me, I will require your assistance.” He cast 42 a fatherly look. “Sit crossed legged on the floor, then see if you can levitate, my apprentice. You will find the meditation more intense if you do.”

***

Sir Gerard was exhausted. He’d spent the entire day tracking and bouncing from one small town to the next. In the end, he’d decided the chase was hopeless, and for tonight he’d finally stay at an inn and get a good night’s rest before heading back to Damasktown. In such a small hamlet, the arrival of a knight caught people’s notice, and the conversation paused for a moment as he walked in, then resumed again.

While Gerard discussed with the owner what he wanted — and it was simple, food, a bath and a place to sleep in that order, at a table in the corner, one elderly man seemed to blend into the woodwork and vanish, his food and drink still sitting on the table with a few coins next to it. But no one was looking at such an innocuous old man anyway.

“Now where did the grandpa go?” a barmaid complained as she came around to the table, but no one answered her.

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