The Bartered Princess
Though that didn’t explain why he hadn’t set off for the faraway land with the slavers and, presumably, Prince Renaud.
Maybe his uncle could be persuaded to torture him in a good cause. That would be a sight worth seeing, as he knew it went against all Magnus’ principles. Not his own, it had to be said. Not where the fate of hapless women was concerned.
As if he had conjured the greybeard, he spotted him from the battlements. The palace itself had once been a well-defended castle before King Gregory had decided to live there for most of the year. Could they be going, not to the east, but to the other, lesser-used palace? With an entourage of newly acquired harem women? He doubted it.
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