Vol 1 Chapter 8 (1/2)

They Come

When the elf woke up, he didn’t know for how long he had slept

His head was aching, there was a ringing sound in his hears, his limbs felt heavy, it was as if he had not rested at all

The lighting in the room was dark – as an inn refurbished frouish between day and night inside the rooms of the Mercenary’s Home

But in this fan presence

“You’re awake?” In the darkness, came Cain’s smooth voice, “The door wasn’t locked, so I came in”

The sound of flint striking, followed by the piercing candlelight

Ellen instinctively raised his hand to block it, but before that, a piece of cool cloth was placed on his forehead

“Best not to move,” Cain sat down next to him, “unless you want to feel worse”

“So this is the so called ‘hang-over’…” Ellen closed his eyes,

“As the first ti fairly well”

“How long did I sleep?”

“It’s not even evening”

Upon hearing the word ‘evening’, the elf struggled to sit up, “Duke Elmond… should apply for a country wide search warrant –“

“It’s done” The knight reached out to push hiation by the Holy Order of Paladins, for worshi+ping an evil cult and perfor secret rituals in his hoic was really present Right now the duke’s manor is full of servants from the Queen and the Church I don’t think he would reveal himself for some time”

The knight sed withof a noble – I sent the Queen a letter using your seal, hope you don’t mind”

“Cain?”

“Hm?”

“Goodnight” The elf speedily fell back onto his pillow, covered his eyes with the cloth; his breath evened out soon afterwards

The knight watched quietly for a moment, then blew out the candle

“Goodnight, Ellen”

When the elf woke up again, it was because of the sound of light cat like scratching at his door

It seeer ached

The elf got up to open the door, sunlight filtered into the rooh the s in the hall

The young siren crouched in front of the door, he lifted his head after hearing the sound of the door opening, face full of innocence he said, “Cain said not to disturb you, but I was hungry”

Hearing that, the knight as standing to one side let out a long sigh of lament

“You’ve already cleared out all my travel rations”

“Those were trophies that you should have offered to me as the victor”

“… I call you out on a duel No ic allowed, a warrior should solve the problems with a sword honorably!”

“Sword? Foolish human, do you want to compare sizes or stamina?”