Rumblings can be felt coming from Peru!

While no new chapter has yet to be posted for Aquila, the author is happy to announce her return home. Aquila has been opened up for the first time on Thursday and hopefully will have a chapter 5 sometime early next week if not sooner.

A New Chapter of Taerith Is Up

In which Taerith becomes aware of a new, and terrible, threat.

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Ruma

It's the latest in Zoe's story, up for your perusal. Please read and comment!! I love comments. :)

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Tancred looked over at the approaching guard, a poised expression on his face. “What is the meaning of this delay?” he asked with appropriate aloofness. A well-off merchant was considered a class above a common gatekeeper. Nevertheless, he was curious: what had brought on the extra security? Nothing of this sort had happened to him when on previous missions to Ruma.

“We’re not to ‘llow no one into the city without checkin’ their business,” the portly guard said, his beady eyes meeting Tancred’s for a moment and then dropping away. He began scanning the parcels attached to the back of the saddles and glanced at Jaedon swiftly. His eyes paused on Zoe and Tancred was thankful she was not looking up. She would not care in the least for the guard’s heavy stare. He did not care for the man’s open gaze.

“Well, what need you check?” he asked edgily. “I am a merchant who frequents this city often. Cormac Alstair is my name.”

“Alstair, eh?” the guard managed to tear his gaze from Zoe and looked back at Tancred.

“Never before have I been denied entrance to Ruma and I expect that will not happen now. Why the extra security, gateman?”

“We was told by our superiors ‘twas merely a new requirement to check everyone’s purposes ‘fore they entered the city,” the man shrugged, “but me and my friends are right certain that it has something to do with them foreign dignitaries that ‘rrived recently.”

Tancred looked at him keenly. “Foreign dignitaries?”

The guard nodded as he poked the saddlebag behind Jaedon’s saddle. “Yessir. All them royal folks tried to hide their entrance into Ruma but I ain’t fooled.”

“Whose arrival? Who do you think would come to see King Brastus?” Tancred made sure his voice was uninterested but he listened keenly for the man’s reply.

The guard glanced appreciatively at Zoe once more and Tancred’s jaw tightened. With a small sigh the man looked over at Tancred. His face took on a conspiratorial look. “Don’t know what everybody else is a-thinkin’,” he muttered, “but I’m bettin’ that they’re from the north. Wild Men.” He said the last two words slowly and with great emphasis, apparently expecting a reaction from them all.

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Discovery

Glancing over her shoulder to be sure no one saw her, Daelia tiptoed through the darkness, coming to a stop in front of the strange door. It was probably locked. Gripping the handle, she pressed down on the latch. Much to her surprise, the latch moved freely and the door shifted open a crack. Pushing the door open slowly, Daelia looked once more behind her as she quickly slipped inside.
The latch clicked back into place loudly as her eyes adjusted to the strange light of this newly discovered room…and gasped.

Please come read Chapter 10 of Daelia's story!

Tension

“Where is Wren?” he asked in a harsh whisper. The men that had been guarding the women were dead and the others were too far away to hear, but he didn’t see a good reason to be reckless.

“She said something about Brone.”

“Her horse?” He was going to give that woman a piece of his mind when he found her. They needed to get as far as possible before the bandits realized that they were gone. Waltzing back into the camp to steal back a horse would be a sure way of causing alarm. The horses were bound to be guarded. “Stay here,” he whispered to Katraina and then ducked back out into the clearing without waiting for a response.

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