Journey of a Betrayed Hero, Volume 2 by Brandon Varnell

Author:Brandon Varnell [Varnell, Brandon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780998994253
Publisher: Kitsune Incorporated
Published: 2019-07-08T22:00:00+00:00

INTERLUDE III

DARK PLAN HATCHED

They were in the White Council conference room again. However, this time they were not discussing the attack on Kindness and murder of two other White Council members; they were discussing what they should do with Enyo. As always, Alice sat at the technical head of the table, listening to the four remaining White Council members as they argued like a couple of children.

“We should sentence her to death and be done with it!” Abstinence shouted, slamming his hand onto the table as though doing so made his argument stronger.

“That sort of thinking is why nobody likes you,” Kindness said.

“What was that?!”

“Queen Alice, I believe our first priority should be to find out what she was hoping to accomplish,” Kindness said. “The fact that she offered to help us, that she saved my life when she didn’t have to, should be enough to prove that Enyo is a good person.”

“A good person?” Abstinence scoffed. “That woman is a member of the Dark Clan. There’s not a single good person among them. They’re all savages.”

“That sort of unintelligent thinking is why everyone makes fun of you behind your back,” Kindness retorted.

“Shut up!”

“This fighting is getting us nowhere,” Alice said, interrupting them both. “I suggest you two calm down.”

The debate thus far had been heated, with Abstinence calling for Enyo’s death and Kindness defending her. Alice thought Kindness’s defense of Enyo was because she was a foreigner. Unlike everyone else here, she’d not experienced the horrors of the war against the Dark Clan. She knew nothing of what they’d gone through.

Alice shifted in her seat. Despite the comfortable softness underneath her, her butt was getting numb. They’d been sitting there for at least two hours now. In that time, the only thing they’d done was argue, and she was getting sick of it.

“While I would normally agree with you, Kindness, do not forget that she had the otherworld gate key in her possession,” Justice said. “Her rescue of you could have all been a ploy to get inside of Avant Heim.”

“It could have, but I do not believe so,” Kindness said. “Do not forget, there was no way for her to know who I was at the time she rescued me. It was the middle of the night when I was nearly killed, and she couldn’t see my face.”

“She might have been the one to sic those beasts on you to begin with,” Justice said.

“What proof do you have that she did?” asked Kindness.

“What proof do you have that she didn’t?” rebutted Justice.

Alice wanted to hang her head as she listened to these people bicker like children. She shifted again and looked at Listy, whose expression was carefully blank. Bayard and Caslain stood behind her, and while she couldn’t see their expressions, she could well imagine them. They were probably as annoyed with this farce as she was.

“This sort of circular argument is getting us nowhere,” Chastity said so suddenly that everyone stared at him in surprise. “Regardless of

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