Sei didn't seem to notice his words and taking out the arrow, he unfurled a medallion with the seal of the Warchild house.
-You will present it to the Lady of Novik, and she will receive you into the fortress. You tell her that the king sends you, she will obey. Read the history and blend in and you will be fine. Or not, as you wish, Sei just turned his back on them, leaving towards the forest.
They were left there and soon decided to go north, just as the monk told them.
Sei reached Iris, but the look on his face was not good. She had also heard them and she did not like much what she heard.
They both headed back to the mountains, while the other shadows headed for the place mentioned. Novik was not so far from the capital, but it was enough far away that there would be no reactio
