Soul Survivor (Spirit Shield Saga Book 0)
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“The wizard still lives!” she screamed. “Find the mage. Hurry!”
She snapped her fingers, calling the two guards standing closest. “Pick him up, and move him to the lower dungeon. Secure him with two guards on the door at all times. His head is to be shaven before he awakes and it must remain shaven or his powers will return.”
She grabbed Mordecai’s whiskered jaw in her long-nailed hand and shook his slack face. “Poor bald wizard,” she murmured to him. “You hoped to be dead before I arrived, didn’t you? Soon, you will tell me all your secrets, starting with this room. I will know the truth of this before you die.” She released his face. “Take him away!”
Whirling around, she barked to the other guards crowding the room. “Burn the bodies—immediately! There will be no Remembrance Eulogy for them. They are unworthy of the honour. It is reserved for true royalty”—she nudged Gwen’s body with her toe—“and she is not royalty! Filthy heathen!”
Furious, she stormed from the room, her black silk skirts snapping in her wake.
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