The Sorcerer's Bride Chapter 104

It took a while gathering together the magic users that Kaldrek had suggested . About a week, and then another week preparing them for their trip . They all seemed rather pleased to have been chosen .

Kaldrek was kept pretty busy helping his king prepare them for their excursion . Despite this he still found plenty of time to spend with his wife . Zylvia had been learning her magic quickly and now knew several spells for attacking or defending . They also had spent time keeping watch to make sure the Grimshades had not moved base, which to Kaldrek's relief they had not .

Now he watched as Queen Dawn had come back to fetch the magic users . He was surprised to notice someone who came with her . A man with hair that looked remarkably like feathers, and who made little noise the entire time he waited on the queen to finish what she was doing .

Something about the man intrigued him . Perhaps it was the fact that he always kept his eyes closed . Or the fact that he seemed to regard Dawn with much more respect than was normal, even for a queen .
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Dawn was pleased by the men who were to accompany her . She asked Jayesh if it was okay for her to take them to Lumna until they set off . Which Jayesh agreed to, provided that the three sorcerers were okay with it .

As they were discussing it Kaldrek walked over to the man who had accompanied Queen Dawn here and tried to figure him out . The man had a nose that resembled a hawk's beak almost uncannily . Coupled with the odd almost feathers that made up his hair it gave him a decidedly hawkish look .

It was a few minutes before Kaldrek realized something off . The man had not opened his eyes even when he had approached, though he had tilted his head slightly, as though listening .

Queen Dawn came back, preparing to leave . She paused, notiving the curious gaze Kaldrek had on his face, and cleared her throat slightly, "Sorcerer, this is Raven, a new advisor that I have taken into my service . Raven, this is the Court Sorcerer of Carendlus, Kaldrek . "

A slight smile came to the man's face, "Charmed, I am sure . " His voice had a slightly hoarse quality to it .

"Likewise . " Kaldrek raised an eyebrow noticing that even now, the man did not bother opening his eyes . He figured that he was probably blind or something . Which raised all sorts of questions in his mind over how Dawn had ended up taking him on as an advisor .

As he watched Dawn leave, he reflected that her taking charge of the extermination of those who had attacked the kingdoms was probably a good thing . Even those who did not like the reserved queen had to admit that she was a highly capable woman .

Turning away, Kaldrek looked over at his king, "Well, Jayesh, now we just need to wait on the news of their success . "

"Unless they fail of course," Jayesh pointed out, slightly frowning .

Kaldrek shook his head at his friend, "They'll do just fine . There is no point just thinking about how they might fail . We did everything we could to help make it easier for them, so now we need to sit back and let them do their job . "

Jayesh paused, and then nodded, conceding the point . It was true after all . They had provided as much assistance as they knew how .

Then Jayesh murmured softly, "Okay, that being the case, I am going to go spend time with my wife… you could take some time for yours as well, teach her some more of your tricks or something . "

Kaldrek accompanied his best friend as he went in search of Fayre . Of course, he would not mind seeing his own pretty wife as he always would look forward to seeing her .

The women looked up at them as they stopped in their doorway . The princess was with them as they seemed to have been happily talking together . Fayre immediately smiled at her husband and stood up to meet him . Kaldrek ignored his king and queen as he gazed at his own lady, whose eyes had dropped back to what she had been working on .

Kaldrek may have always been a bit bad at reading people, but he could tell his lady was not in the best of moods at the moment . He felt a sudden urge to make sure she was okay and found himself scrutinizing her closer trying to figure out what was wrong . He could not really tell, she just seemed moody .

His king and queen left, to go spend time together as he decided that Zylvia might just need some rest . So he walked to her side and asked Hazel if she minded him borrowing his wife . After he placed a hand on Zylvia's arm and guided her gently out of the room .

She pulled her arm out of his grip with a slight frown on her face in the hallway, "What was it you wanted?"

Chapter end