The Warded Box by Guy Antibes

Author:Guy Antibes
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: CasiePress LLC
Published: 2019-05-20T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

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T hey left Corina and headed back to their tent. Jack looked around. “Where is Helen?”

“Roaming around?” Tanner said. “That doesn’t sound like her unless she tells me she is going scouting.”

They ran to their tent and Lark was gone. Jack looked at the ground around the tent. “New footprints and at least one is being dragged.”

“Lark.” Tanner turned to look back at Ralinn’s tent in time to see four soldiers escort Ralinn and Corina out. The mercenary sighed and lowered his shoulders. “We can’t do a thing at this point. Let’s put on our armor to protect ourselves.”

When they emerged from the tent, a squad of soldiers arrived. “There you are. Come with us.”

Tanner looked at Jack and shrugged. They were escorted out of the private area. Jack noticed the man with the long beard standing with his arms folded and his face impassive.

“This way,” a soldier said. They twisted their way through the camp until they arrived at a larger tent. “Inside.”

The soldiers pushed Tanner and Jack a little harder than they needed to. Jack looked around. Three gloved wizards stood in a clump. Lark, unveiled, faced a senior officer, if decorations meant anything in the Baron’s army. The man was bald and a little overweight, but Jack didn’t care for his features. He looked angry, and Jack doubted that the angry look ever left his face.

“Come in, come in. I appreciate your delivering someone I have been looking for.” He looked at Lark, who stood silently looking past the officer. “Perhaps you haven’t been properly introduced. This is Prince Larkin Waterford. You didn’t know did you?”

Tanner didn’t say a thing. Jack stared at Lark. He suspected Ralinn and Lark were nobles, but not that noble. He hadn’t met anyone higher up than Tanner’s brother, the Duke of Bartonsee.

“I should introduce myself. I am Baron Overvale, and my men surround you. I am still dithering about where my loyalty lies, but first and foremost I am loyal to myself. I’m sure you understand.”

“I do,” Tanner said. “Where are the women?”

“They will be here in a moment. The mercenary woman is being seen to. She protested a little too strongly. I hope you two are more intelligent than her.”

Jack had already seen Helen’s temper. It had gotten the better of her before.

The three veiled females were led into the chamber. Helen had a bandage around her temple and red marks on her face that would likely turn into bruises.

“You know that Larkin’s sister, Aralinn, has been traveling with you? We haven’t gotten to the reason why yet, and I am very interested,” the baron said.

“They are helping us travel to Wilton,” Jack said.

“Noble guides, I see, and what were you to do in Wilton?”

“I carry a message to be delivered to the grand wizard,” Jack said.

Overvale furrowed his brow. “What is the message?”

“We don’t know. It is within a warded box,” Jack said. “I don’t think we were meant to see it. As I said, it is warded.”

The baron shot a glance at the Black Finger Society wizards.

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