The Silver Pear (The Dark Forest Book 2) by Michelle Diener

Author:Michelle Diener [Diener, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

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He needed to get rid of his knife.

Rane walked easily between two guards and wondered how he could do that without being seen.

The knife would be invaluable to him in the castle, especially if Vik intended to lock him away, but there was little chance he’d be allowed to keep it when they searched him, and they would.

Getting it back if Vik took possession of it would be a problem, and Rane was determined not to lose it.

Better it lie off the path under a bush in the forest until he escaped and came to fetch it.

He’d done it before.

Too many times, he decided wearily.

Being captured and taken prisoner had become too much of a pattern in his life.

He and Kayla needed to end this war before it began and start living a real life.

He slowed to a stop and the guards around him jostled as they had to stop, as well.

Vik turned to him, frowning, and Rane allowed himself a sheepish grin.

“Spent the morning at the inn listening to the gossip on Andrei, trying to find out if my brother was here, and I drunk too much cider. Being thrown about by Andrei’s ward a couple of times didn’t help, either. I need a moment.” He indicated the trees.

Vik’s frown deepened. “We’re close to the castle.”

Rane shrugged. “I doubt you are going to let me use the facilities the minute we get there.”

Vik smiled at that, and flicked his hands at the tree Rane had indicated. “True enough. Don’t expect privacy.”

Rane shrugged again, as if he didn’t care, either way, and walked off the path, two guards trailing him. There were plenty of exposed roots and he was easily able to stumble over them and palm his knife from his boot.

He fumbled with his trousers, and looked around, glad he genuinely had had the cider at the inn and was more than ready to answer a call of nature.

There was a bush whose branches brushed the ground right next to him, and when he was done, he looked around on the forest floor and stood hard on a broken branch as he turned.

The crack of the wood giving beneath his boot proved a nice cover for the sound of his knife falling through the thin branches and hitting the ground.

The guards didn’t even flinch at the sound, and Rane stepped back on the path with a mixed sense of worry and relief.

His knife was a fearsome weapon, one they would need to take on Eric, Nuen and anyone else. They’d already lost the golden apple. He would not lose his knife to Vik the Steady if he could help it, even if it meant it would be harder to escape.

Vik was right about being close to the castle. They reached it about ten minutes later.

It was a similar size to Kayla’s home in Gaynor and as they neared it, Rane compared the two.

Vik’s castle had a chunkier, sturdier look than the more whimsical spires and turrets of

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