The Akorell Break (The Mortal Mage Book 2) by B.T. Narro

Author:B.T. Narro
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2017-07-16T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

No one else was taken away besides the three of them. Desil was surprised that out of the entire crowd of brave soldiers, not one had tried to stop the arrest of the princess. But as Desil recalled the feeling he’d had escaping from the castle just recently, it began to make sense. The king’s power was immense and not to be tested. Desil wouldn’t have stood up to these armored men if he wasn’t prepared to be arrested.

“Separate them,” Allephon announced. “They are not to communicate with each other.”

“And this boy?” asked one of the two men holding Desil by his arms. They were just about to shove him into a jail set up on a wagon.

“Separate everyone.” Allephon didn’t bother looking. He walked weakly toward the awaiting horses. Jimmin offered his arm, but Allephon refused with a lift of his hands. Desil lowered his head, hoping not to be seen by the older councilman. Jimmin might not recognize Desil as one of the four who’d fought off the attack at the tavern, thanks to all the dirt he had collected since then, but it wasn’t worth the risk.

They were on the outskirts of the camp. More of Allephon’s loyal troops brought out horses and wagons. How many more men than those outside Tenred were allied with the new king? Five hundred? And did they know what Allephon had done to his father? Perhaps they’d even gone along with it.

Desil heard Beatrix speaking to someone from her small jail on another wagon. “Don’t do this. You are supporting a traitor.” At least she sounded like her old self, although groggy and in pain.

“Shall I gag her?” asked someone near the princess.

“Yes, if she keeps talking,” Allephon answered. “I must lie down. Where is my carriage?”

Could these men really know the truth and not care? Desil refused to believe it.

Jimmin escorted Allephon to his covered carriage. The king got in with a groan and drew the shades across the windows. Desil didn’t fight as men moved him into an identical wagon as the ones where they’d locked up Kirnich and Beatrix. Kirnich was too far away to hear clearly, but he sounded to be ordering the men around him to release him and the princess. Desil feared he would hear his own name from Kirnich’s mouth. He listened for it as someone spoke with Kirnich about how they had to take them to the castle, but there was no mention of Desil. Hopefully Kirnich knew keeping Desil’s identity hidden was the only way they would survive.

There was one other hope, Desil realized, but he wasn’t sure he could really think of it with anything other than dread. Basen, Leida, and Adriya could come for them. How they could break everyone out of the dungeons in the castle, Desil had no idea. They would probably get arrested in the process.

The Wind Knights didn’t have the power to force Allephon to release his sister. They probably couldn’t even get her out for questioning.

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