Once Upon a Highland Legend

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Genres: Fiction
The caves, naturally formed and full of mist, descended deep into the bowels of the ben. That’s where they had vaulted the stone. But this was as close as any need come, for the cold mist was enough to put an ague in the bones. There was no other way in, so the guards remained outside, guarding from without. Voices carried so they fell into whispers—one an elder, one not. It so happened the two had received the same rotation this evening.
“If she’s a spy, she wasna sent here by Giric,” the elde
...r declared.
“How can ye know?”
The elder shrugged. Using his dirk to pare off an annoying hang of flesh at his thumb, he pricked a bit of his own blood, and then swiped it upon his breacan. “Let us simply say I was kept in confidence until we left Scone.”
“Tell me then, if Giric realizes the stone missing, why has he no’ raised alarm and stormed the vale?”
The elder eyed the man seated upon his rump and re-sheathed his blade. “Of course, they have no idea where we have taken the stone—how could they?
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