The Banished Prince: Their Dark King Book One (A Gay Harem Fantasy): Their Dark King Book One A Gay Harem Fantasy by Zoe Perdita

Author:Zoe Perdita [Perdita, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-04T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Alder

The crow circled overhead at least a dozen times before Smith and the other hunters noticed it.

One of them aimed his bow at it, but I knew he couldn't hit it that high in the sky. I could have, but I didn't offer. I had no interest in killing a carrion bird.

Nor did I want the bad luck that might befall me for doing so. I had enough of my own bad luck to deal with.

Every single one of them spit when they saw it, and then it circled one more time and flew to the north west.

It was headed the same direction we were. Curious, but it didn't mean anything.

Or I wouldn't have thought it did if I hadn't known the Queen so well. She kept a crow as a pet. Or perhaps a confidant. It was difficult to say with her. I often wondered if it was her familiar, but I never dared to ask.

That crow could've been a completely normal one, or it might not. I preferred not to brush it off so easily, and I shoved that piece of information into the back of my mind with all the others.

Over a week on the road had done me well. For one, riding a horse had replenished some of the muscles I hadn't been able to exercise while chained to a wall. For another, the rations were better and the meat in my diet I now knew wasn't rat or pigeon.

An hour or so after the crow vanished, I turned my horse east. "There's a village this way."

"We don't care about villages," one of the Johns said and sneered. Or perhaps that was just how his ugly face always looked.

"It doesn't matter if we do, they will. Think about it. The prince fled in the dead of night with whatever supplies didn't burn. That couldn't have been many since it appears they were surprised by the men in the village. He'll need supplies, and we can get to the village first if we go this way."

Smith looked at his men, then at me. After a moment of thought, he nodded.

We all turned our horses east, toward an ancient road that ran through these woods. I'd visited that village on multiple occasions. I remembered the feel of the rough sheets at the tiny inn, and the smile the bartender gave me as he leaned against the door and wished me a very sweet good night. I'd been a boy of twenty and fancied myself a man.

I knew nothing of the world then.

What did I know of it now?

Fate was cruel. Everyone lied. And everyone needed to watch their own back, for no one else would watch it for them.

Yes, the bitterness settled over me nicely, as thick and as warm as my cloak.

I didn't like to think what else I'd done in the forest past that village. Or the unknown things that lurked in the woods—things these men would slit their own throats to escape. The things I'd seen and feared to dream of, if my dreams hadn't been otherwise preoccupied with him.

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