Sworn To Secrecy: Courtlight #4 by Edun Terah

Author:Edun, Terah [Edun, Terah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: coming of age, fantasy, magic, Kingdoms, dragons
Published: 2014-02-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

With Thomas dying, the vines entrapping them in the gardens withered and died. Their master could no longer spare the power to keep them invigorated and growing. The entrance doorway appeared as the vines blocking their exit drew back into their natural state. As they did so servants poured into the garden with voices clamoring to know what was happening. They had seen the garden’s rapid development from a distance. As they raced from the manor over the desolated maze, they said they feared the worse.

“Another attack?” said one man.

“No, an ambush of the emperor’s guard,” speculated the maid beside him.

But it was clear that even their wildest speculations hadn’t come close to what they saw inside the eternity pool’s garden. The strained and haggard faces that greeted them froze a man in his tracks for a moment. Then the head footmen set to work leaning over Thanar and they soon rallied to their charges. The servants set about moving the weak, including Vana and Thanar, quickly onto stretchers and back into the manor. Thomas they were more cautious with as they transported him. Even with Stephanie holding a knife to the throat of the pain-wracked satyr as he thrashed in the mobile stretcher.

When they arrived at the manor entrance to the garden, Lillian took one look at them all and whispered harshly, “Into the master’s study on the second floor. It’s soundproof.”

The servants bore all their burdens into the requested room without a word.

Sebastian paced in front of Thomas while Ciardis and Caemon carefully saw to the various wounds of Vana, Thanar, and Stephanie. They couldn’t do much since Christian was the only healer in the room and he was too incapacitated to do much else then give instructions on how to care for the cuts and lacerations they all bore. Within five minutes Lord Steadfast arrived, assessed the situation in a glance, and hastily summoned his on-call healer to their bedsides. When the healer tried to force his attention upon Christian, the koreschie gave him a terse look and told him, “There’s nothing you can do for me.”

“But—”the healer said with a frown. Fresh-faced and clean-robed, he was a medic from the Healers’ Guild. If he could heal Thanar’s wings, which had looked like useless bits of paper torn to shreds before he had set his magic to them, then surely he could heal a man who looked like he just needed a good night or two of rest.

“I’m ill with the aerdivus,” said Thomas flatly.

Upon hearing that, the healer stepped back with pale and shaking hands. The aerdivus infection was notorious in the healing community as the only illness that their professional guild couldn’t combat in a human patient. In fact, most healers who had previously tried to heal an aerdivus infection in a patient had succumbed to the same infection themselves and died very quickly. Those who had lived had only spread the virus further. It only took a dozen or so deaths within the

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