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37 • LARICE
The Right Wing was the place for all laborers and non-lord guests. Larice walked through the ground halls, passing by doors after doors. Sevyh’s chamber could be found on the third level, she knew, because hers was on the fourth.
Maids, cooks, bakers, tailors, cleaners … all took notice of her and watched as she went past them. They must’ve known her as the hunter who had captured the last hyborn. But Larice ignored. She never considered herself as a dragon hunter—and she had no plans of serving this dark empire, ever.
She reflected on the Emperor. All people had been so stupid of believing him—but not Larice. Did he really think he could fool her just like everybody else? Even Estes was so afraid to mess up with the Emperor. She hated him … she hated Emperor Sargan … and all these stupid people here in this palace—and Quarth, especially Quarth. She swore he would be the first one whom she would
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A Symphony of Frost and Flame 38 • RAEHERYS
Blood dripped down from his red knuckles. Raeherys struck another punch against the stone wall, but it was too hard. He couldn’t make a crack. Only traces of blood were marked on the stone cold surface. He hissed out the pain in his soaking red fist, and after a few more strikes, he finally gave up.Raeherys leaned back on the wall and sat down, shaking his fist. His screaming muscles ached like hell throughout his entire body. He had already spent hours searching around his dark cell, but what he found was only dust and stones. It was hopeless. His brother was right. There’s no way of them getting out from the inside.They couldn’t transform their arms to break the stones nor breathe fire to melt the bars. But there must be something in here, Raeherys thought. If only he had Fetyr, but his cell was too far away.“Just give up, brother,” Aravyr said from the other cell. “We can never get through these ba
A Symphony of Frost and Flame 39 • LARICE
The air in the underground dungeon was far worse than she thought. The stench and foul smell of the cells made her stomach turn. Larice wondered what her life would be like behind those bars. But she couldn’t imagine herself spending the rest of her days in this wretched place. It would never happen, she thought.The prisoners went wild, calling and begging for her to set them free. But she just ignored them, because there’s only one person she planned to take out of this dungeon.Larice held the cold, metal bars as she found Estevan, asleep inside his cell, and lying on the dirty stone floor. She squeezed her grip, feeling so bad for him. He didn’t deserve this. He never did.She inserted the key in the lock hole and twisted it. After hearing the heavy click, she opened the bars and stepped inside.The cell was grim. It was a lot harder to breathe when one’s underground—and much worse here on the lower
A Symphony of Frost and Flame 40 • RAEHERYS
The metal bars clanked and screeched all around the dungeon as Raeherys and his brother opened one cell after another. Upon doing it, his thoughts kept on coming back at Sevyh. The sellsword helped them out, but why? What was he trying to achieve by doing this? Raeherys already pushed him away, yelled at his face, and poured out all of his anger. And yet, Sevyh still left him these keys earlier.Raeherys might be wrong about him, he thought …But no …The memory of that night when Sevyh betrayed him flashed back into his mind. He had learned enough from his mistake, and so he would never risk another chance of trusting that sellsword again.When he got to Fetyr and opened his cell, the Lawdra went out to embrace him. Then he held Raeherys’ jaws and shook his head with a frown.“Look at what they did to you, My King,” he said. “You shouldn’t have tried to escape from those hunters. I
A Symphony of Frost and Flame 41• LARICE
All hope had gone to nothing. Larice found herself kneeling along with Estevan, all bruised and beaten up after the hunters dragged them out of the dungeon. The fight was pointless; she realized—ten hunters, including Quarth, all against her? What was she thinking? But it surprised her when they didn’t kill her immediately in the dungeon. She thought they would torture her here with Estevan, but she had spotted no torturing equipment around.The Black Solar spoke up to its name, revealing its gray-painted walls, dark ceilings with no windows, and floors of black quartz. At the center of the solar—a circular, iron plate with a meter in diameter—covered the lip of an iron tube like a large can. Larice had no clue of what the wide tube contained, but it seemed to be connected underground. Was this their punishment? Would the Emperor throw them inside that iron-covered tube? Whatever it contained, she had a very bad feeling about it.
A Symphony of Frost and Flame 42 • RAEHERYS
Every swing, every hit of their swords brought more pain in his tired arms, legs, and gut. Raeherys clenched his jaws, wrenched his aching muscles, and gripped his sword tighter as he parried his opponents’ attacks. He could feel his body breaking apart. But he had to keep fighting. The entire realm was counting on them to escape this dungeon and end the war once and for all.“Curse you! Vile beas—“ The hunter choked more blood as Raeherys drove the point of his sword through the throat. He swiped the man away and rushed towards the other enemies. Aravyr and Myrdin were still holding off. They’d slain a few and were still struggling.Raeherys yelled as he waved his sword to an enemy charging his way. When the hunter blocked his blade, steels sparked against each other. Raeherys grunted as the heavy impact hurt his arms, causing him to get pushed back.“Bloody hell!” Raeherys pulled over his face, t
A Symphony of Frost and Flame 43 • LARICE
The feast in Harman’s Hall began with the welcoming words of the Emperor. However, he didn’t stay long with the guests as he announced he had a very important errand to run this night. Larice paid no attention at all as she could feel the stares of the nobles and lords and ladies around her. She didn’t like the setting. The air was too warm and too loud. She hated the environment, more so the people.The curtains, long table cloths, even the carpet—all were dominated with white, red, and gold. Jasmine and white roses surrounded the two small pools, along with the water lilies and lotuses floating on the surface. Long candles rested on every table that provided warm light around the hall. The noises of chats and laughter gave life to the feast, but not Larice, as they only made her more irritated.The nobles and lords wore elegant clothing of very long silks, reaching to their toes, locked by belts of leather and silver and
A Symphony of Frost and Flame 44 • RAEHERYS
The metal door blasted open where two guards stood outside—both faces looked in shock. Aravyr and Myrdin took care of them. They were already in the left-wing of the palace, which was a shortcut to the dungeon aside from the entrance on the river shore below. Raeherys never thought the palace would look very different from the bastions he’d seen back in the ranges. The walls, floors, even the ceilings had colors. Everything was too bright for his eyes after being so long in the darkness of the dungeons. They hurried through the long halls where they encountered more guards. Raeherys had to let Sevyh and his fellow brethren fight with their dragon arms and claws since his body was too exhausted for battle. He couldn’t almost feel his legs, so Fetyr and Estevan had to help him walk fast.Blades and claws clashed against each other. Every fight ended with blood and death as they fought their way through the hall. Something w
A Symphony of Frost and Flame 45 • LARICE
Larice did not know which way to go, but she didn’t care anymore. All she wanted was to keep on running and running and running … away from the hunters chasing her. Her eyes were wet and red, sobbing from that shameful event earlier. After all this time, she had been living in a false dream of having people to accept her truly. Reality just slapped her face hard. But she had to accept it; no one would ever care for her and stay with her forever.More problems kept on troubling her thoughts, but she knew she had to get out of the palace first as soon as possible. She had no plans of getting captured, killed, or thrown into prison for the rest of her life.Larice turned left to where another hall showed a clear path. She wondered what that quake was earlier. It probably came from the dungeons. Did the prisoners escaped? She suddenly remembered Sevyh. She hadn’t seen him since they got separated in the dungeon. He might have been
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