10
Nicholas gazed at the wall of his cell, his mind strangely blank. He still couldn’t believe Dominic was alive after all these years. When Dominic had disappeared, it had destroyed him. He’d gone to the docks, asking everyone if they had seen Dominic, hoping to learn if Dom had joined a merchant crew. But his inquiries had been met with stoic silence. Only a girl from the tavern by the docks, the one Dominic had fought for all those years ago, had sworn in urgent whispers that she’d seen him being carried away to a ship.
No one else would say a word, assuming they had seen anything. Dominic’s parents had been frantic with worry, hiring men to question the townsfolk, and they sent other men riding down every major road looking for Dom. But it was as though he had vanished into the night
