Book 2 - Chapter 39

Chapter 39 – Meeting the Hermit

Aero

Call me overprotective. I don’t care. This is what I am, especially when dealing with my wife and my children.

This quest, I expected, would lead us to danger in one way or another. Honestly, I wanted Serena safe and sound inside our castle instead, but she fuels me. She gives me inspiration. She pushes me to move forward, find my mother, and be done with it. Selfish as it may, I needed her presence in this quest.

Luckily, so far, we encountered no danger as we trekked the fields and hills of Elaga. I expected Geraden’s foolhardy supporters waiting to avenge him, or maybe Sattus’s baby-eating monsters to attack us, but neither of these groups appeared.

Instead, I came face to face with an Amazonian-wannabe woman whose spiky and likely poisoned-tipped arrows directed our ch