Chapter 14
THERE WERE MANY questions Carro should have asked, but his brain was so numb that he was out the door before he remembered any of them. It felt like it had all been a dream, except he had the staff in his hands and his Learner’s badge on his collar, and a fuzzy feeling in his head that told him that, yes, this was real, and if he wanted to come out of this alive, he had better obey orders. Someone was testing him, or teasing him, or using him as expendable bait, and all he could do was run along and hope he wasn’t going to get caught in something sticky.
The two elite Knights waited at the end of the corridor that led to Rider Cornatan’s quarters, both sharp-faced silent men at least ten years older than Carro. He had never seen them before. Their eyes were hard, their gazes n
