Vankara (Book 1) by S.J. West

Author:S.J. West [West, S.J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-10-10T05:00:00+00:00

I held Dena close and put my hands over her little ears to help muffle the noise of returning to our own world. My ears were still ringing by the time we made it back to the palace. Before we even came to a stop, the door was unlatched and the opening filled with the body of John Fallon.

“Are you all right?” He asked, breathing hard like he had just run a great distance, his eyes searching our faces to answer his own question.

“Yes, we’re fine,” I told him. “Bellas just wanted to talk.

The coach came to a stop in the exact same spot we had departed from earlier in front of the palace.

Fallon took Dena out of the coach first and helped Emily and I make our way out of the iron box. Everyone had an expectant expression on their faces, waiting for me to explain exactly what had happened.

I didn’t want to discuss what we had just been through in front of the palace guards. I felt confident the truth about where I had been would be known to every curious citizen of Iron City before the sun crested over the horizon if I made that mistake.

“I know you all have questions,” I said to the crowd. “But I’m simply too tired to answer them right now. I hope you can all understand Dena and I need some time alone.” It helped tug at the hearts of the trio of bureaucrats to have Dena hugging my neck tightly like any frightened toddler, unwilling to let her mother go in front of so many strangers.

“Of course, your majesty,” Gabriel said with a bow, to which everyone else had no other choice but to follow suit.

“I’ll see the Queen and princess safely to their quarters,” Fallon said before he turned to a group of Queen’s guards. “I want the watches doubled in force tonight. I don’t want to hear about anymore unexpected incidences this evening. I think the Queen and princess have been through enough.”

The guards clicked their heels together in unison and yelled, “Yes, sir!”

Fallon walked beside me back into the palace. I faintly heard Gabriel ask Aleksander a question. I assumed the king of Chromis had intended to follow us back to our rooms but thankfully Gabriel derailed him of his intentions. I definitely wasn’t in the mood or frame of mind to deal with Aleksander.

Once we were back in the Queen’s chambers, I handed Dena over to Emily without any protest from the little princess.

“She could use another bath before going to bed,” I said to Emily.

Emily curtseyed and took Dena to her private bathroom.

I took off Fallon’s coat and handed it back to him.

“I’m afraid it will need to be cleaned.”

Fallon took the jacket and folded it flour side inward.

“I have a lot of questions for you,” he said, draping the jacket across one of his arms, “but they can wait until morning.”

“Thank you.”

Fallon and I stared at each other for a moment. He seemed to want to say something to me but didn’t seem certain if he should or not.

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