Woodcastle: The Courts Divided Book 1 by Kell Inkston

Author:Kell Inkston
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub

Chapter Nineteen: Coming and Going

From the prisoner’s belongings bin hops out a small sheath. It’s the one that holds Everlock, which unknown to the fairies has been long-enchanted to be semi-sentient. Love often misplaces her dimensional sheath, so she set that enchantment on it so that she could simply call it to come bouncing its way over. Yeinwyll doesn’t notice until it is too late, and the sheath is now in Love’s hands. He quickly stumbles to his feet, ready to subdue the prisoner.

Sheath in grip, Meeo pulls out Everlock and sets it on the ground. The pretty door stands up by itself, calmly inviting visitors. As Yeinwyll rushes up to the cell, Love opens Everlock and waves goodbye.

“I’ll be right back,” she says with a smile as she steps through the door and closes it from behind. The ent reaches the cell just as the door is shut. Yeinwyll waves the cell’s rune key over the tree-made bars, causing the vines to move aside. He rushes in, opens the door, and is quickly met with a large group of mathematical equations playing rugby. He is tackled to the ground in the midst of the playing field, allowing Love enough time to grasp Yeinwyll’s key to her magic cuffs. She works through them in only a second, and her spells are restored. Before the ent can get back up, Love enters Everlock again, and closes it behind her; she’s certain a tough tree like him will be alright.

Back in the dungeon, Love stores Everlock back into her spare dimension and makes her way up into the common halls.

She’ll have to be stealthy to get the minions, but she’s certain it’ll be worth it.

Love reaches into one of her many pockets and pulls out a small slip of paper and a calligraphy brush, already wet and inked. She splashes out a rough depiction of an eye and tears the middle part of one of the sides to make two little legs. Meeo whispers a few words to the slip of paper, brushes it with her hand and, after a moment, it suddenly stands to attention.

The small paper golem bows astutely to its creator, hops out of her hand, and steps right out into the hallway. With the useful magical link she established with her little paper helper, she can see what it sees.

The paper golem spots no guards in the hallway, so Love steps out from the opening to the dungeon and allows the legged slip of paper to check the next group of halls. The Golem and Love enter a rhythm of the golem checking a hall, and then its master moving into it, ensuring Love is safe from the risk of being spotted were she to be peeking around corners. She spots a few guards, uses one spell or another to get past, and finally reaches the hall to the entry foyer, where Law is still guarding the minions with a sharp eye. Sitting next to him is Aoline; it seems that the five of them have loosed up a bit and are chatting.

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