Chapter 115

They traveled for days avoiding villages and countries in-between so their journey would be faster but it seemed to Cleopoda that they traveled for a whole week even though it was just a few days. She was so eager to get out of the carriage with her Uncle Angus, to have him take her back to the palace and convince father to accept her.

On the night of their first day of journeying, he noticed the silver balls of gurop with a horrified expression. He had given her some fruits to eat and when she opened her mouth to eat from her apple the faint light of the lamp in the carriage reflected on them.

"What is that?" He asked horrified afraid to think it was what he suspected. He had moved closer to her to examine her mouth but she refused to open her mouth.

"Open your mouth Cleopoda let me see what is in it."

She shook her head. "It is nothing Uncle, a trick of the light."

When he pulled out a dagger from his boots she shook and tried to run to the