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Chapter 42 – Revealing Revelling
"Lady Shaelith?" Sir Gaudbert straightened up from his elegant bow and tilted his head. Shaelith barely heard him, as she was still staring intently at the servant carrying the poisoned wine, who was just passing behind Gaudbert and continuing straight toward Benderast. Gaudbert turned, followed her gaze, and saw the servant with the lone cup of wine on his tray. "Oh," he said cheerfully. "Wine!" And before Shaelith could even react, he had stepped into the servant's path, snatched the cup from…-
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Chapter 21 – The Way North
The gates of Myzelemaerlazin were already an hour behind them when Shaelith was finally able to think clearly again. The finger. Vyriz's finger. With the word "COME" carved into the skin like an invitation to a damn dinner party. She marched silently at the head of the group, mechanically putting one foot in front of the other, while her anxious thoughts were with Vyriz. The landscape around them gradually changed, and the phosphorescent mushroom columns of the Shaeravyn heartlands gave way to wild fern…-
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Obelaine's desperate cry had caused Frambert to hesitate. The tip of his sword trembled as it rested against Benderast's throat. "Obelaine, no," Frambert croaked. "That… that's not true. Gwilet warned me that you'd say that. You've convinced yourself that this guy saved you, that… that you love him, that… so you can bear the fact that he… what he did to you…" Oh, for fuck's sake, I don't know if I've ever encountered a more despicable worm than Gwilet. Gwilet hadn't just spun a web of…
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Chapter 43 – Love in Thoughts
The next morning, they sat around the cooking fire, and Grimbart handed out porridge to them. Shaelith waited until everyone had a bowl and Honor had finished commenting on the sunrise. Then she recounted what Gaudbert had told her while they were dancing. "And I guess I'm the cunning witch in the story," she concluded. "Right after that, he had to, um, make a quick exit." Mirrsoss's antennae twitched at the mere memory. "So… do you think the nice, chubby knight was telling the truth?" "All in…-
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Chapter 22 – The Crossing
The river was a problem. Shaelith stood on the bank and watched the rushing waters tumbling through the rocky riverbed below them. Recent rains had turned the stream into a raging monster, carrying tree trunks and debris as if they were nothing. And where there had once been a bridge, probably not too long ago, only a few stone pillars now protruded from the water. The rest lay scattered on the bank as a field of debris. Some beams were half sunk in the mud, others had become entangled in the bushes, but…-
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Chapter 54 – Goodbyes
The chaos caused by the events during the melee lasted for days. Bomfrey was in uproar as everyone involved struggled to manage the greatest dynastic crisis since the founding of the Triarchy, while at the same time Obelaine's revelations sent a full-blown social scandal rocking the court and it reverberated far beyond aristocratic society. The situation was complicated by the fact that the College of Heralds had no precedents or protocol for this and had to improvise, which was something they really…-
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"I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU!" Honor fluttered in all his splendor over Bomfrey, right next to Obelaine, who was also waving to them as they rode off. "THE NOBLE BENDERAST! HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE! AND THEIR BRAVE FRIENDS! THE HOT-HEADED DWARF GLIMHART! THE STOIC WOOD ELF CEYLON! THE MERRY MOTH WHIRRBUZZ! THE BARDS WILL SING OF YOUR HEROIC DEEDS AS LONG AS-" "Please let's ride a little faster," Grimbart ground out through clenched teeth. Benderast waved back to Honor from a distance. Or perhaps to…
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Chapter 45 – The Trial of Faith
The Forge of Bomfrey boasted quite impressive architecture. For humans, at least. Above what back in Shaelith's and Benderast's old world would have been called an altar and which here took the stylized form of an anvil, sat a large round window. It was designed so that, in every season, the morning sun could be seen shining through it, falling upon the polished, blackened steel of the altar-anvil. Grimbart looked at the anvil with some displeasure. "I bet that thing has never been struck by a…-
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Chapter 24 – Hidden Passage
From their hidden position, they thoroughly observed the fortress, hoping to get some idea of how they could get inside. When Mirrsoss returned from her second reconnaissance flight, her moth wings were still a little damp from the clouds she had hidden in to avoid detection. She landed fairly silently between them. Her compound eyes glimmered in the pale light. "The main gates are heavily guarded," she reported breathlessly. "At least forty to fifty goblins at each entrance, and they change regularly.…-
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Chapter 48 – Undaunted
She really had to talk to Gaudbert now, to find out more about Prince Frambert and how the nobility of the Triarchy thought about Prince Gwilet's conspiracy narrative. For once, he didn't seem to be with the ladies behind the horse pasture, so Shaelith decided to try her luck at the castle itself. "Stop!" the man at the gatehouse called out to her. "I have to check if you're authorized to enter." Afraid I'm a siege weapon in disguise? "Are there many Shaeravyn noblewomen currently staying in…-
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