Secrets of the Sapphire Soul by A. J. Walker

Author:A. J. Walker [Walker, A. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: A J Walker Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

A Visitor from Nagano

A knock came at the door. Anders bolted to an upright position, sheets falling to cover his midsection. He looked to his left to see Maija already up and nearly fully dressed. She walked gracefully to the door, opening it slightly.

“Yes,” Anders heard her say through the crack.

A low murmuring floated through the opening in the door.

Maija nodded and closed the door. She turned to face him as he sat half-awake in an early morning fog. “Ivan says we were to meet him downstairs in the lobby five minutes ago, so you’d better get dressed.” She walked to the side of the bed and handed him a shirt from his strewn travel bags.

“I thought we weren’t going to have our meeting with the dwarfs until after morning tea?” he asked, pulling the shirt over his head and crossing the small room to look out the window at the dimly lit city. “I can’t tell if it’s daytime or nighttime down here,” he said over his shoulder.

“It’s just before sunrise,” she informed him casually.

Anders raised an eyebrow, “And Ivan wants to meet now?”

“Five, no six minutes ago,” she smirked.

Anders gave her a half-cocked smile as he pulled his boots on, “What’s he want to do before our meeting?”

“Training. Come on, you’re late,” she said as she opened the door and stood expectantly.

“One second,” Anders reached down under the bed, his hand wrapping around the prized sword that Nadir had given him. He hadn’t worn it to their dinner party with the dwarfs the night before. Ivan had made sure they all knew the proper attire.

Anders sprang to his feet and jogged to the doorway to accompany Maija, blade in hand. As he reached back to close the door he recalled the diagram he’d copied from Merglan’s journal.

“One second, I forgot to grab something. I’ll meet you down there,” he called to Maija who was already on her way down to the lobby. He turned and rushed back to the saddlebags, quickly swiping the journal from inside. As he placed his hand on the leather-bound book, he thought he heard someone mumble at him from the hallway. Gripping the journal in one hand and his elven sword in the other, Anders rushed into the hall expecting to see Maija, Natalia or Ivan waiting for him, but no one was there. He glanced left, then right to be sure, but the hallway was empty.

That’s weird, he thought. I could’ve sworn I heard someone say something to me. He popped his head back into his room to make sure no one had entered while his back was turned in rummaging through the saddlebags.

Nope, no one here. Weird, he tucked the journal into the waist of his pants and closed the door, rushing down to meet Ivan and Maija.

Ivan, Maija and Natalia were waiting impatiently as he scuttled down the stairs and into the lobby. Both Natalia and Ivan had their sword belts on, blades hanging at their sides. Stepping away from the front desk as Anders jogged across the room, they exited the inn.

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