The Lord Son's Travels by Emma Mickley

Author:Emma Mickley [Mickley, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-11-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 34

Brendan knew his friend well enough to avoid any contact with him until the next morning. His warring companions had claimed both of the chambers in the hold, so he was left to sit guard duty alone out on the deck. When the few rays of light overflowed the horizon, he knocked on the door to Adrien’s chamber and offered a few bites to eat. As expected he was ignored, so he entered anyway, greeting his friend as cheerfully as he would any other morning. Adrien glared his way from the wooden bench he had used for his bed.

“We dock at the next town and set her ashore,” Adrien announced brusquely. He refused the offered meal with a wave of his hand, so Brendan chose a chair and started eating. When his friend didn’t respond to his announcement, Adrien added darkly, “I’ll not travel with anyone I can’t trust.”

Brendan raised an eyebrow at this. “When did she ever speak a mistruth to any question we asked directly of her?”

Adrien blinked rapidly in surprise, and turned to face his friend. “You support her then?”

“She never hid her … differences from us, Adrien. We are using her knowledge in our quest, so I don’t believe we can punish her for her skills now.”

Adrien’s eyes darkened as his brows drew further down. “I expected your support.”

“You have it,” Brendan reassured him. “And you have Elenna’s, if you weren’t too stubborn to see that.”

Adrien rose to his feet to pace angrily. “Her support? She told me…”

Brendan nodded with shared disapproval. Allè-dônians in general were uncomfortable with unpleasantly frank or foul language, and the offensiveness grew commiserate with higher levels of rank. “I've never thought to hear that word spoken in a feminine voice, and certainly not in that manner. But she is not one of us, Adrien. As much as both of us like to forget this, she is a stranger with different ways. She did have a right to be angry at you; you should not have searched her belongings..”

“You saw what she had in her bag!” Adrien exclaimed. Brendan nodded, blanching slightly at the memory. Adrien noted his pause and pushed his argument. “What kind of place could she have come from to make things such as that? Should this not cause natural suspicion on my part?”

“Suspicion, perhaps,” Brendan replied slowly, “but not distrust. Elenna has stood at our side in battle; if she meant to harm us or our quest she had satisfactory opportunities before now.”

Adrien wrapped his arms around himself, and chewed his lip in the same manner he had all of his childhood. The pictures had frightened him, he would freely admit, but more frightening was the realization of how strange Elenna really was. He wondered how someone so different could ever truly fit into his world. He wondered of his own judgment of letting a stranger become a central player in his plans; he wasn’t sure how she had become so necessary to his designs. This realization,

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