Chapter Eighteen
"The life of a Sona Tuathan Royal Guardsman is a life of both hardship and leisure. In times of war, the Royal Guard has many responsibilities, protecting the royal family, being the most important. In times of peace, however, guardsmen need to take care against laziness and slovenly behavior."
-Sona Tuath; Thomas Ulln
Sunlight lazily peeked through yielding trees branches. Sweet melodies of bright red birds serenaded them as they passed through the scrubby wood that would eventually take them to the Vel' Kur Mountains and beyond-to the legendary land of the Archigos: Ventra.
They had been traveling north for a week's time and had another three weeks before they would reach Rhiannon's new home. Her new home-she thought the words sounded so ludicrous. It had been a litt
