The Treacherous Path (The Narrowing Path Series Book 2) by David J. Normoyle

Author:David J. Normoyle [Normoyle, David J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: survival, Young Adult, action adventure, fantasy, teen, dystopian, Dystopia, fiction
Publisher: David J Normoyle
Published: 2014-03-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Day 25

Bowe returned what he’d just finished reading and picked out the next stack of papers. He made sure to keep everything in order. Jakelin wouldn’t be happy if he knew Bowe had come to his storeroom to search through his old papers, but perhaps he’d forgive Bowe if Bowe didn’t mess them up in the process. Of course, Jakelin would never have a chance again to look through his carefully arranged documents, but it was a matter of principle. A lot of time had been spent preserving them, and Bowe intended to treat them with respect.

When Bowe had first started coming here at night, he’d read over the more recent documents. But the last few nights—knowing that his time was limited—he’d dug deeper and taken down the boxes dated fifteen years ago. He’d read about what had happened to cause the fall of the Bellanger family. The strange thing was that some of the things that Bowe read about seemed similar to what was happening now. Barns burning to the ground, crop seed being ruined. There was no mention of the Guild, though. Bowe remembered how Coensaw had said he was involved in the fall of the Bellangers fifteen years ago. At the time he wasn’t sure whether to believe him. This was possibly proof that he did have something to do with it, and also proof that Coensaw was willing to order that type of campaign if it helped his cause.

From other correspondence, it was clear that the Bellangers had been in trouble even without the Guild’s interference. They had taken loans from the Raine family whenever they had a bad year and never dealt with those loans, allowing them to get out of control. Then they had one terrible year where everything went wrong. They had seen no way out, which had led to the mass suicide.

The Greniers had taken responsibility for the Bellanger escay and marshals and their holdings and made sure those who deserved a place in the Refuge got one. Of course, if Arcandis had refused all the farmers and their crops and animals from the Refuge, then they would have had a famine in the following sexennium. The Greniers had also taken over the Raine loans. Perhaps that was why they were so desperate to keep the tax money coming in.

Bowe sighed as he read the legal document where the Greniers agreed to take over the holdings previously administered by the Bellangers. It was a historic document—it probably shouldn’t have been buried away in an old storeroom. But it wasn’t an event that the powers of Arcandis were proud of, so Bowe could understand why it wasn’t displayed anywhere. And for Bowe it had an extra sadness, for it was the signing away of the old Bellanger legacy. He put it back into the box and picked up the next document. He had begun to scan that when a thought hit him and he retrieved the legal document and read through it again.

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