Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George

Author:Jessica Day George [George, Jessica Day]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Family, Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, General, Siblings
ISBN: 9781599907314
Google: u049ghwWYxwC
Amazon: B005PWMFQK
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Published: 2011-10-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter

15

It was the next morning, almost noon, before Rolf could join them. He brought some food with him, which his sisters fell upon like wolves. While they ate he told them everything that had happened to him.

“It’s just as I thought it would be, only now the Emissary has come right out and said it to my face,” Rolf said, staring at Lilah as she folded an enormous slice of ham and crammed it into her mouth. “I’m to be their puppet: do what they say, say what they tell me, or they’ll kill me and put Khelsh on the throne.”

“Won’t they try to do that anyway?” Celie was eating an apple, taking the largest bites she could without choking. Juice ran down her chin onto her gown, and she didn’t even try to wipe it off with a napkin.

“I don’t think so—at least, not if I cooperate,” Rolf said. “The Emissary probably needs to wait until people get used to having a Vhervhish prince around. I just hope Khelsh is that patient,” he said, shaking his head skeptically.

“He won’t be,” Celie said. “He’s already replaced one member of the Council with one of his own men. He’ll keep doing it until they’re all Vhervhish.” She shuddered.

“He’s replaced someone? Who?”

Celie and Lilah told him what Celie had heard, and then Rolf told them everything else that had happened. Like the Emissary having Pogue locked up, only to find the blacksmith’s son gone an hour later.

“The Castle must have given him a way out,” Rolf assured them. “And what’s more: half the soldiers are gone. And that includes Sergeant Avery! No one will say where they went, but I’m willing to bet Pogue took them to the pass to look for our parents and Bran.”

“But how can we be sure?” Lilah asked. “What if Khelsh and the Council have done something horrible to them?”

“I really doubt it,” Rolf told her. “They’re too angry about the disappearances. They’ve questioned me several times, and everyone else from the lowliest kitchen drudge to the other members of the Council. There’s quite a to-do down there! Everyone is either terrified or offended.”

“Does everyone know, then, what Pogue and the wizards found out?” Celie stopped eating for a moment, looking at her brother with a flutter of hope in her breast.

“They do,” Rolf said, taking a deep breath and smiling at her. “They do, and that’s why I think Pogue must have gotten out all right. Even before the Emissary started to interrogate everyone about the missing guards, I heard some whispers. The maids know, and if the maids know, the whole Castle will soon know as well.”

Lilah relaxed visibly, and Celie found that her appetite came back in a rush. She tore a roll in half, smashed a piece of ham between the two pieces, and ate it in a few bites. Pogue had gotten free, people knew her parents were alive, everything would be all right.

“Where did you go after we fled the throne room?” Lilah was now eating her own apple in rather unladylike bites.

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