The Greater Challenge Beyond (The Southern Continent Series book 3)
“Oehla said formally, addressing the man who appeared older, apparently the officer of the palace guards.“We accept responsibility for disposal of the traitor,” the man said just as formally, saluting Oehla as he did.“There hasn’t been a traitor to dispose of. I’m not a traitor,” Grange said loudly.The officer looked over at him with a withering expression.“Take him to the north chambers,” he addressed his guards.“Will you come in and visit with us?” he turned to speak to Oehla in a casual tone..., as the guards responded by laying hands on Grange and lifting him to the ground, then marching him through passages of the palace. Within ten minutes he was in an underground dungeon, locked away from people and sunlight once again.Hours later, Grange heard the clanging of a distant door, and the steps of approaching feet. They were the first sounds he had heard during his new imprisonment – no one else was being held in the corridor of prison cells where he was held.Torch lights cast an increasing amount of light outside his cell door, and Grange stood expectantly, his legs protesting the exercise after the long hours of inactivity in the cell and in the wagon. His arms were free – the ropes around him had been cut when he was placed in the cell. There was a pause, and the glow of the torches stopped on the opposite side of his door – the door was mostly solid wood and metal, with a small rectangular window in the upper half.Keys jingled, the door opened, and a half dozen men moved into the cell. All of them wore silver and blue trim upon black uniforms, except for a broad-shouldered older man who was at the center of the group, an older man whose hair was touched with silver that perfectly match the silver trim on his uniform and the silver chains he wore around his neck. He had a noble face.He spoke in the Southgar tongue, studying Grange’s face as he spoke.“You’re the spitting image of Ragnar when he was young, before he took the throne,”MoreLess
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