Road to Koilatha by A. C. Ellas

Author:A. C. Ellas [Ellas, A. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, fantasy, erotic, gay, adult, m/m
ISBN: 9781771112383
Amazon: B008IVMG3M
Publisher: eXtasybooks
Published: 2012-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11: The King’s Council

They entered the council chamber and nine elaborately dressed men stood up. All talk ceased as the king moved to his seat at the head of the table. Jethain claimed an empty seat to the king’s right. An empty seat to the king’s left was marked with the symbol of the Sun God. Rak found himself obscurely disappointed by the sun priest’s absence.

At the foot of the table were two empty chairs for the dark servants. The captain took up station behind Rak and Scorth as they sat to face the council.

King Owain cleared his throat. “High Priest S’Rak brought me a message, as you all know.” He read the scroll aloud , set it onto the polished wood of the table, and looked at his councilors. “The message is authentic, therefore, I ask you all to recognize and welcome my firstborn son, crown prince, and high priest as envoy to our court.”

“Sire, must we do any such thing?” asked Jethain. “We worship Auranz, not Zotien. Why should we welcome these demons just because the Dark Lord commands us to? He is not our God. Why should we believe his pronouncement? He wants to claim our fair land of the sun for his evil regime.”

“Prince Jethain is correct in that we worship Auranz,” said a white-haired noble with many fine lines around his eyes and mouth, “but do we really wish to risk insult to a God as powerful as the Lord of Night? He is one of the Supreme Four, from which all the other Gods descend, and shouldn’t be treated frivolously.”

“That may be, Lord Peneron, but our Gods are opposed to the Dark, and the God we are speaking of is the Dark Lord himself,” said the prince. “I don’t see why we are even entertaining the notion of acknowledging these demons as envoys, much less one as a prince. What we should do is confine them until the priests of Auranz can deal with them properly. That is naught but our pious duty.”

Rak strove for equanimity as the lords of Koilatha entered a heated debate on whether they should imprison the dark servants or if the pronouncement of Rak as Owain’s firstborn was true. Voices of reason pointed out that the Lord of Night might be upset if they were to confine one of His high priests for no good reason. Others snarled back that all dark servants were, by definition, evil and should be dealt with on that basis.

Do you think that they will be so foolish as to imprison us? Rak wondered.

Let them but try, replied Scorth. Then we could act with a free hand. The response of our lord would be amusing to observe.

Rak’s mind filled with images of Karpos City in flames, circled by dragons as the hounds hunted down every last living soul. But no, the Lord of Night would be limited in reaction so far from Okyro. Most of the God’s forces were arrayed against the enemy, the Goddess Katzrevia, the Unmaker who waged Her long war against freedom and mankind.

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