Valkwitch (The Valkwitch Saga Book 1) by Michael Watson

Author:Michael Watson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Michael L. Watson
Published: 2013-07-08T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-two

Tyrissa stood in the Cadre’s record room on the second floor of the guild hall, surrounded by four centuries of history. Company banners decorated the walls, though these were eight tattered and scarred originals and not the reproductions that hung elsewhere in the building. Taken together they showed the gradual progression of the Cadre’s emblem from bloodied spear on a white field to the current abstracted geometric spear point on a disc of red and white quadrants. Trophies of victories filled the vaulted room: banners of defeated rivals, display cases of old weapons, and a quartet of griffon skulls, their beaks just as sharp as when their owners were alive. Kadrich, in portrait form, kept watch over the collection of the company’s history with the stern gaze of commander and father.

Another painting covered much of the wall opposite of Kadrich. It was an old map of the northern nations, centered on the Khalan states before they joined into a federation. Once perhaps a practical piece of art, the passage of time had rendered it an anachronistic relic. The varied Khalan states were drawn with their independent borders, when there were a dozen states instead of the modern seven, plus a patchwork of tiny city-states and baronies. The top of the map still had the three old Morg kingdoms of Kroya, Groddan, and Motengard. The Rift was nowhere to be seen and Hithia, colored a faded blue, dominated the southern third of the painting. Vordeum, however, was still in largely unclaimed ruins, its lands painted a faded red over whatever once was.

Flanking the antique map were bookshelves filled with archives, chronicles, and a copy of what she sought: a leather bound folder, its cover embossed with ‘Active Bounties’. She brought it over to a nearby table and began her search. The entries were organized by bounty value, high to low and it didn’t take long for Tyrissa to find her man. He was the third entry, after a serial killer with no name but an extensive resume and an embezzler that skipped town with over a million gilders from Central’s coffers.

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