Knightfall: Book Four of the Nightlord series by Garon Whited

Author:Garon Whited [Whited, Garon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-02T06:00:00+00:00

And now a chapter of life draws to a close. What once was will soon be no more. Things change, and not always for the worse—but that’s the way to bet.

I went to the meeting with a sense of anticipation. Not in the gift sense; I wasn’t looking forward to having something new. I was thinking about the future, anticipating it. Everything—well, everything involving the Kingdom of Karvalen—hinged on my performance.

My other emotion was dread.

I’m glad I took a theater course. Now I wish I took more of them. Seems to me, my ability to pretend I’m someone I’m not has been important. Then again, maybe one could say that’s what got me into this mess.

I need to wow the crowd tonight. If I can throw myself into the role, really sell it, I can quit the king business and turn it over to someone who knows what she’s doing. I need to avoid massive wars to maintain the unity of a kingdom, and I need to not be on the throne. Add to that I would like to be elsewhere, as in being a really hard target for the Hand, as well as about my personal business—finding Tort, murdering magi, and so on.

The Ardents’ farmhouse felt like home. How much more so does Karvalen? My pet rock is my house. My daughter and granddaughter are here. My estranged wife and our son live just the other side of the mountains. I have a dozen or more people who actually care about me, and some unreasonably high number of people I actually care about.

This is home.

And I’m leaving it because that’s what’s best for it. It may also be what’s best for me, but I don’t count.

Sometimes, I look back on all the times I’ve been called some variation of stupid and wonder if they were right. Most of the time I don’t bother to wonder.

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