Chapter 6Gideon’s first order of business was to break down the walls of the prison room, in order to hopefully save one of the girls he heard whispering to him during his imprisonment. After hours of blind digging, the crew only found her skeleton. It was covered in a thin sheen of gold.
“Here,” the man in a burgundy tunic said. He presented the black velvet bag filled with gold bones to Gideon. “She is yours. Your gold.”
Gideon didn’t want her—he wanted humanity, he wanted love and tenderness—but he kept the girl anyway. She lay in his bed, a strange monument to his time in the prisoner and now as the King’s mage. And for a while, time went on as normal. It was not happily ever after, but Gideon had never expected that.
It wasn’t until a messenger came from a nearby kingdom, asking fo
