Rise of Allies (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 4) by E.G. Foley

Author:E.G. Foley [Foley, E.G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Foley Publications
Published: 2014-10-09T22:00:00+00:00

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You do your best all the time and it’s still not good enough, Maddox thought, brooding as he walked across the dark meadow.

Lights flickered in the colorful lanterns ahead, and he stepped cautiously past the ring of toadstools marking the boundary of the fairy market.

It was said anything you might want could be bought here—for a price. After his humiliation today at the feet of Miss Isabelle Bradford, Maddox was wondering what his price was.

Perhaps, he mused, it was better to be rich and feared for his strength rather than penniless and deliberately noble for honor’s sake. What good was it being so handy in a fight if he was constantly required to hold himself back? How was that fair?

It was tiresome, especially when he was left looking a fool, like today, thanks to that brat, the Order’s precious golden boy.

Jake didn’t seem to realize not everybody owned a bloody goldmine.

Maddox sighed as he ambled through the market. Ah, well. At least he didn’t end up having to waste what little money he possessed on a set of new clothes.

He could not imagine what sort of nasty acids dragon dung contained, but as it turned out, the stuff stained. He’d spent most of the afternoon shivering on his knees beside the brook, trying to scrub it out of his clothes by hand. He had washed and rinsed his beloved black jacket and ruined twill trousers numerous times, until he had spotted a strange, hulking, blood-red creature in the brook.

Astonished, he had reached for his sword and stood to fight it in his long johns; but then a few beautiful water nymphs had swum by, giggling and pointing at him, as if he needed to be humiliated one more time today in front of females—with or without scales.

By the time the water nymphs had disappeared, so had the scarlet creature in the water. Well, there was no telling what manner of beasts might inhabit the woods around Merlin Hall.

He had gone back to the task of trying to salvage his clothes and was starting to wonder if he’d have to attend the rest of the Gathering naked, when the gnomes from his Assessment had brought him a fresh set of new clothes, nicer than the old.

He had been quite taken aback by this unexpected gift. He did not know where the gnomes had got the clothes from, perhaps they had sewn them for him themselves, but they fit. He had thanked the little fellows uncertainly for the gift, but they’d just stood there, staring up at him.

Gnomes, he had found out, really didn’t say much.

But then, neither did Guardians. So, Maddox had mumbled his thanks and put them on, relieved that he wouldn’t have to squander a chunk of his meager savings all because of Jake Everton’s prank. After all, he’d already sent most of the money he’d earned back home to his adoptive parents.

The notion, however, of spending a little bit of his money as he pleased had got him thinking…and so, he had come to the fairy market.

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