![]() “Bettia, look at our girl all grown up and beautiful as ever. Her lover was in danger, more than she was, and she had no idea if he were safe or not. Joran was happy, and Celeste was glad to be back with her family and home. But neither she nor Adam remembered that he had said he would do so, and Celeste had quizzed Adam a great deal about what he knew about Magnus. Perhaps she had understood that he was going to do so. She might have believed he would for he knew where she was. He did not even say if he would write or try and reach her. He told her to come home to Lartes and Camoria, but he did not say where he was going. She caught another sob in her throat for the secret worried her greatly. A secret that he was bound to keep and one that would cause him to seek a third term as Vote Holder and then do his best to remain at the head of the council of seven. Her father guarded a secret that she now knew and worried about. Celeste did not wonder if he were too old for another term. He had been a Vote-Holder for nearly ten years. A position that General Zacharia had held for nearly five years since the last election. Riders would have returned quicker than the column that Celeste had travelled with, telling the news that no one of Camoria, had won the Imperial Tournament, but also that General Adam had come in third.Īfter each Imperial the election of Vote-Holders took place and then from those election to the Council of Seven and its leadership. Her father was also called the General, or Council Leader, though a new election for Vote Holders and council leadership would surely be underway now that the Imperial was finished. “Do you remember your bow to the Vote-Holder?” Celeste asked. Weeks had sometimes gone by where he did not smile at all. Now a little more than year since his mother had died and he had not missed a day of smiling since they had left the capitol of Karnexia. Adam had him at his side almost the entire time that they travelled, with his two cousins who were the first family members he had ever met, he seemed like he was the most joyous he had ever been. He had a wonderful time as they travelled on the road away from Karn and probably Duke Mikal as well. A curse to wed the monster that was Joran’s father and a blessing to be his stepmother. Indeed sometimes and for other reasons it had been so. Perhaps wanting to be a sister of Nuln had been more of a curse then a blessing. It was inevitable she supposed and she caught back a sob as she realized she had missed many years of the love and affection that her parents could have given her by being away. She had not noticed that he was slower, but he was past sixty now. He was grayer, but she had seen that the previous year when he came to her wedding. But this is no little boy, she has brought a man home with her!” The general came down the stairs, slower then Celeste remembered he would walk down them before she had left her family to become a novice. ![]() I vaguely remember some little boy that looked like that at her wedding. ![]() “She’s here, that is wonderful and who is that next to her. I posted the first part of the first chapter a few days back so perhaps now would be good to post the first part of the second chapter ![]() Reaching 200 pages in this, the exact amount I have written in all books for the year is 1,268,235 and for Hoveria 60,000+ The grind continues and has now passed the milestone of 200 pages in the second part of the KoTohLan series, the work our hero Magnus Thistle is doing in Hoveria. ![]()
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