“He had stayed an extra week in Grace searching the castle for the king’s advisor and mistress, Belsac and Helace. Both were strangely absent. Pressing duties, rumor said, but when asked nobody knew what those duties were. No matter how much he tried, Calto found himself hard pressed to believe a whore’s duties were all that pressing. Still, his time in the palace was not wasted. He did find more hellkind. Within days Calto dispatched three additional hellhounds and almost lost his arm to a demo...n before managing to shove his blessed staff down its throat while the hellborn tore off the shreds of Calto’s armor. Afterward, a number of the servitors mysteriously disappeared. Calto was about to send a missive to his brethren about the need for a purge when the king, roused from his stupor, ordered him to leave the castle immediately. Even so, if he had not had such troubling dreams about Simta, mainly that she was being devoured by cats, Calto would have defied the king’s order and stayed longer, making sure to take care of Elise’s two problems in a permanent fashion once he found them.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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