Riftwar Legacy 01 Krondor, the Betrayal by Raymond E. Feist

Author:Raymond E. Feist
Language: eng
Format: azw
ISBN: 9780380795277
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1998-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

When the door was again open, James said, “I knew that only a family member would be able to know how to trigger that door from the outside,” as Owyn jumped down from the ledge. “If the other children in the village couldn’t find it, Navon du Sandau from Kenting Rush wasn’t going to blunder up here and find his way into the run.

“So, I asked a few questions and got the clues I needed,” he said as they walked back into the dark tunnel. Owyn produced another light with his magic, and James continued. “We’ve met the Baron. It doesn’t take much imagination to see the Baroness attracted to a flamboyant, handsome man, even if he’s a common mason. So Neville is conceived.

“The Baron finds out he’s not the father, and he and his wife agree not to discuss it, but every day he sees the boy and is reminded of the betrayal.

“So, after a decade of daily insult to his manhood, he decides to lure the betrayer up to the run, rig an accident, and extract his revenge. Unfortunately, the boy was watching the work being done when the accident happened.”

Owyn said, “And I wasn’t here, and Ugyne couldn’t open the entrance by herself from outside.”

“And perhaps the Baron himself didn’t realize there was an outside trigger. I don’t know, and mostly, I don’t care. He killed at least four men and will have to be tried for that.”

They reached the barracks and headed for the stairs to the door with the lock. “Neville somehow found his way out of the run. I suspect he was either injured, terrified, or both. We will never know how or why, but somehow he got out and lived. Someone found him, and he survived. It might have been the Nighthawks, or he might have come to them later. It may be that a bright young and talented lad like Neville might have seized the opportunity to take control of the Nighthawks when Arutha all but stamped them out in Krondor, ten years ago. It would have been the right time for survivors of that destruction to have been seeking sanctuary in an out-of-the-way place like the run.

“They changed his appearance enough so it wasn’t apparent to those who knew the boy that he was the same person. Some people change dramatically between eleven summers and twenty-two. Or maybe they used some magic. As I’ve said, we’ll never know. But we do know there were relationships that Neville inherited, between the Nighthawks, the moredhel, and the Pantathians.”

Gorath almost spat at the last. “Damn snakes and their hot-land magic. I can’t abide them.”

“But Murmandamus counted them useful.” James didn’t share the secret that Murmandamus had actually been a Pantathian in disguise, magically altered to look like a moredhel. He reached the lock and used the key he had taken from Navon. The key turned and the lock opened, and James pushed up on the trapdoor.

It swung away and he mounted the steps and found himself in private quarters.

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