47 Chapter 47 - Death March (2/2)

Gren hopped off the last carriage and addressed the knights.”Now we can travel much faster.I guarantee that I'll be easier to bring along than all of those carriages.”Gren put his arms on his hips in a triumphant pose and had a big grin on his face; not that anybody could see his grin through the veil he was wearing.

A carriage was prepared for Gren; it didn't look like it would fit someone the size of Jasmine.There was a driver's seat mounted on the front of it, practically on the carriage's roof.It looked like it would be comfortable to sit in but the horse they brought out to pull it was scary.

The horse was overflowing with muscles and had long horns on top of its head.Gabriella explained that it was a rare breed of horse called a Dragon Horse but Gren couldn't understand why it was named that; the horse didn't even have scales.The knights were mounting similar-looking horses but their horses' horns were shorter.

Gabriella entrusted Gren's safety to Georgia and returned to the cathedral; she would be of no use on their journey and she didn't want to slow them down.No magician would be brought with them but each knight had a small collection of potions just in case they got injured.The potions they had were slow to heal their injuries but they could be used at any time without having to worry about how much magic energy someone had left.

Gren sat inside the carriage as Georgia took the reins in the driver's seat.The knights were all mounted on their dragon horses and everybody was ready to go.Gren worried about returning to Newton but if his mother was still alive then he needed to make this trip.

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Gren had nothing to do until the knights needed food or water so he lowered the curtains on the carriage and used the magic light to start reading the Beginner's Introduction to Magic; the book he bought from the book store that didn't have any actual spells in it.It was pretty large and it explained how to control magic; there were even easy to understand explanations of the terms used in spell books.

Gren didn't even realize that he was hungry until someone knocked on the carriage door and he could hear Georgia calling out to him.”The knights are taking a break.They need food and water.”

Gren stored the book away and crawled down from the carriage.”How long has it been since we set out?”The sun was still out and shining brightly so there was at least another day until they could make it to Newton.

”Only a few hours.The knights hadn't eaten before we left so we need to take a break a bit earlier.”Gren stretched before walking to the knights to distribute food and water, distracted by his thoughts about the book he had been reading.