Princess of Death (Three Provinces Book 1) by Renee Travis

Author:Renee Travis [Travis, Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-03-10T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“Who goes there?!”

I lifted my head to the guard who was patrolling. Bet Pagri was surrounded by huge stone walls, twenty feet high, I was standing in front of the gate, massive, black and made of iron, with spikes at the top, quite vicious, I liked it.

“I need to speak to Prince Nergal,” I called back. He was fairly high above me in the gate keepers’ tower. He would be able to see far and wide and probably had control of opening the doors to visitors.

“And you would be?” There was a little humor in his voice.

“Princess Ereshkigal.”

“Right,” he chortled, then he disappeared. I waited, impatiently for a few moments. I heard an odd clanking noise and the gate opened a bit, enough to let one person walk out.

“Ekur!” I exclaimed running to greet him. He looked surprised, but hugged me back.

“Princess, when the guard came, Nergal and I couldn’t believe it. He sent me to make sure it was true.” He stood away from me and frowned, “I do not mean to insult, but you look horrible.”

I blushed a little, I had been in my clothes since the party, at least six hours. As my mind took in this news, I embarrassed myself further by yawning.

“I have been busy. I need your help. Nam has been poisoned by a Knife Shrub planted on my property. I have no healer,” I was babbling.

Ekur grabbed my hand and began to pull me inside, hurriedly. I barely had time to look around. Bet Pagri looked like a huge rambling mismatched castle, beautiful. I saw a lot of black and orange, the main décor consisted of bats, moths, ivy, and hounds. We wove through cobblestone paths lined with plants and I remembered I had brought Nergal a gift, but it was with the Adureeds.

Ducking through an arched entryway we went up some stairs and came into a large room. There was a huge fire place and several settees, lounging on one was Nergal. He came to attention seeing me and was by my side in seconds, grabbing me from Ekur.

“Ereshkigal, what is wrong, why are you here? Where is your entourage?” His questions were fired off.

“Namtar has been poisoned.” I could barely say the words again, I was suddenly so tired, I sagged in his arms, he quickly picked me up and cuddled me to his chest. He sat down, holding me to him.

He felt so good, warm and solid; it was nice to be off my feet for a few minutes to feel like someone else could take the weight, if only for the moment.

“Can you help?” I asked, arms going around his waist, I glanced up at his handsome face. He looked so serious.

“Yes, best beloved one. What kind of poison?” But he wasn’t looking at me as he answered but at Ekur. Ekur looked a little nervous and I could not figure out why, it was MY best friend dying not theirs.

“Knife Shrub.” These words seemed to be something offensive to Nergal because when Ekur said it I almost got dropped as he stood.

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