Dragon Wolf Hero
Chapter 7
Eohnin approached the top advisors of the northern kingdom with a message from his sister.
Grald found Ree-Ninn and Yyin and shared the progress of Vor and his companions. “The dungeon is growing and soon the northern lands will be crawling with monsters from the deep.”
Ree-Ninn said, “The true wolves of the north are gathering in packs with a warning about the return of the true dragons.”
Yyin turned to her sister and said what the others were thinking. “Sennranor is close to the king.”
Ree-Ninn frowned. “I turned him down and made it clear we should not be together while the magic of the wolf and dragon transformations is still possible. The king is free to walk with the elf warrior.”
Yyin said, “I can feel your frustration.”
Grald said, “And what can we do out here on the road to the middle-lands?”
Ree-Ninn smiled. “The elf warrior is not in a pack and she will never understand the mind of a human or wolf.”
Grald was not convinced. “The great nation of Illam was joined in a family group much stronger than a pack during the floods during the time of legends. The isolation of the islands have made them a creature of one shared mind.”
Yyin said, “The king will see her as another trusted advisor, but Sennranor is a lone wolf.”
Eohnin interrupted the conversation. “The senior member of the castle staff, Cindaln is her name?”
The trusted advisors looked surprised at the question.
Eohnin watched sisters and smiled at the reaction. “Ree-Nin and Yyin are protecting the secrets of the castle staff, but for what reason? Grald, please share the reason.”
Grald held back a laugh and and stood beside the elf while keeping his distance from the sisters. “Cindaln is fond of you.”
Eohnin was shocked and wanted to run to Illam and hide on the most remote island. “The humans feeling a romantic desire for an elf? In all the years I chronicled the events of the human world, impossible!”
Cindaln watched the group from a distance. The snow was falling, but the high winds in the narrow pass were behind them as the caravan raced south to escape the fear of a monster attack. “I want you to send a message to the kitchen staff,” she said to her familiar, a small white cat with black ears traveling with family members among the uncounted numbers of humans without official titles. “I am the senior castle staff authority, and I ask our many loyal staff members to establish a new kingdom on the great plains of Aruuth.”
The cat sent warning to Cindaln as she raced through the crowd, waiting for each person to respond in agreement. “The trusted advisors will disagree and the castle staff will no longer have the protection of the wolves.”
Yyin found Cindaln and whispered a quick sharp warning. “I hear the commands of the cat, did you forget I was once a young girl in your kitchen staff? The trusted advisors will not interfere with the plan, but we must continue to the library of Illam with the elf ambassador to find the mage who can use the magic circles to end these disastrous events.”
Cindaln realized her thoughts were leading to frustration and calmed her mind. “The mage from the library of Illam?” She wanted Eohnin to herself and decided to prove her leadership abilities within the castle staff. The chronicler of the longest living race should have knowledge of magic to return her to the long lost youth she remembered in her dreams. The woman so beautiful the tall stoic elf would be unable to resist her charms.
The ground shook and the patch between the group and the mountain pass collapsed into a deep ravine. The sides were sloped and the trusted advisors transformed into wolves as monsters climbed to the surface.
Eohnin stopped to look back and watched as the slowest wagons in the caravan were overwhelmed and pulled into the ravine. He took a moment to record the events and sketched the scene for the records in the great library back home. “Vor is from another world and it looks like his memories are creating interesting possibilities. He does not appear to have any sense of the history of this world. Did I see the kitchen aid summon a familiar spirit? I thought the ability was limited to those born with dual spirits trapped in a single body.”
The wolves fought back and created a shield while volunteer knights calmed the group and directed the wagons into a series of tight circles, fifteen groups of wagons ready to prove the legends of the northern kingdom, none could defeat them in battle.
© J. Bateman
Concentrikey © 2024