Urvi, Pedro - Path of the Ranger 02 - The King's Secret by Urvi Pedro

Author:Urvi, Pedro [Urvi, Pedro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Published: 2020-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

“Why would they poison him?” Ingrid said. She glanced over her shoulder. A few steps away was Marga, watching in silence. Ingrid gave her a questioning look, but the Instructor was silent.

“Viggo’s right,” Lasgol said. “He’s been given something that’s knocked him out.”

“I’m nearly always right.”

“Almost never, you mean,” Ingrid shot back.

“Let’s examine his body and decide what’s wrong with him,” Lasgol said. “This must be part of the test.”

“D’you think so?” Gerd said, sounding unconvinced.

“Yes. Or else they’d have taken him to the Healer.”

“That makes sense,” said Ingrid.

The four examined Egil carefully. They found a mark, like a sting, on his forearm. Around it was an intensely blue-purple bruise. This gave them the clue. The continued their examination of his body and his symptoms.

“It’s the Violet Slumber,” Lasgol concluded.

“Wow,” Gerd said. “That’s one of the strong poisons.”

“One of my favorites,” said Viggo. “Leaves the victim unconscious for at least a day and a night, and there’s no way he can wake up once it’s in his bloodstream.”

“There must be some way,” Ingrid said. “Think!”

The four were silent, searching their knowledge of School of Nature.

“We might try The Resurrector,” Lasgol suggested.

“But it’s not for this type of poisoning,” Gerd pointed out. “It’s for very high fevers and heart attacks.”

“Well, I can’t think of anything else…”

“Me neither.”

“Well, then, that’s decided,” Ingrid said. “We’ve got to try something.”

Lasgol was looking around. “Let’s hunt for the ingredients. It’s not going to be easy.”

“We’d better not waste time. Off we go!”

The four of them ran off. Finding what they needed was not going to be at all easy in that forest and at night, with only the light of the moon to rely on. But of course that too was part of the test. The organizers were not going to make things easy for them.

Lasgol was looking for the mushroom they needed near some moist roots, with Gerd a hundred paces ahead of him. He went across to another tree and searched among its roots. At last he found it.

He went to tell Gerd, who was already more than a hundred and fifty paces away.

“I’ve—” he began to say. But he never finished the sentence. Gerd started running through the trees, away from him.

What’s he doing?

Suddenly he saw several figures chasing after Gerd, and crouched down with a swift movement. He half-closed his eyes to watch them. They were the Wolves: four of them. He thought of releasing an arrow, but hesitated and reconsidered. Gerd was leading them away from his own position. If he released he would attract them, and Egil was lying defenseless behind him. They would all be eliminated. He sighed. He could not help him.

Good luck, my friend, he wished Gerd, who was sacrificing himself so that they would not be spotted.

He went back to the entrance to the cave and explained to the others what had happened. Ingrid was very unhappy. It took them a while to find all the ingredients they needed for the potion. After this, preparing it was an even more complicated business.

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