Renegades Of Wolfenvald, Book Two of The Adventures of Sarah Coppernick by SJB Gilmour

Author:SJB Gilmour
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

On another planet in another galaxy — about as far away as it’s possible to get from Earth — something most out of the ordinary was about to happen. Ronald Trustworthy Mason, gnome adventurer and renegade, marched bravely down through the Tunnel of Gnumph. The dark, cavernous tunnel led several hundred meters down through a mountain, straight to the Royal Burrow from where His Majesty, King Roger Heraldstone The Nineteenth had ruled Gnumphlatia for more than a thousand years.

During that very long time, almost nothing exciting or in the least bit dangerous had ever happened. His subjects, because of that very fact, loved King Roger, The Nineteenth. He had kept gnomish society out of any sort of scandal or skirmish so that a gnome could say with pride that he and his fellow citizens knew how to keep their noses clean.

As Ronny passed the Royal Guards and assorted courtiers and dignitaries, he drew nervous glances and could hear hushed whispers about this strange and adventurous gnome who dared show his face after being declared renegade!

‘How dare he?’

‘No good will come of this, I tell you!’

‘Stay away from him! He’s a bad, bad gnome!’

Ronny had called in a large number of favours to get through the long waiting list even to be allowed into the Royal City. Ordinarily, a gnome could wait several years before being allowed to walk the Tunnel of Gnumph. Ronny had cut that waiting time down to just over four months.

Luckily for him, Ronny had a great many friends who still owed him favours from when he had worked for his cousin at Gnumphlatia Manor. The life of a hotel concierge often skirted the edges of legality and even more frequently, morality. To make sure they had everything they needed, Ronny often had to procure just about every sort of contra-banned substance or person for his guests.

The chief of admissions recognised Ronny and remembered the lengths that Ronny had gone to, to make sure that on his “business” trip, he met several very professional “business” ladies of various species other than gnome – a particularly frowned upon predilection within respectable gnomish circles. So, Ronny’s name somehow managed to appear several thousand places ahead in the line than it would ordinarily have been.

Next, he came to the Customs department where he found a few high-ranking officials with tastes for certain illegal substances. One in particular Ronny had had an arrangement with. In exchange for letting certain shipments through Gnumphlatian borders, Ronny had arranged for the gnome to receive some of the narcotics within those shipments. Of course Ronny had never been directly part of the exchange — he had merely greased the wheels, and this gave him an extraordinary amount of leverage over the corrupt official.

So, the clerks who stamped and double-stamped Ronny’s papers were instructed by their suddenly very grumpy boss, to let the gnome through. Thus, Ronny was waved through without having to mention various tastes for vice the customs gnome had, or his involvement in smuggling.

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