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Midnight Vision
The autumn sky was fiery.
They rode with only escorts, seven other men on horseback at full speed north east of Kilead. They had left the castle that morning and had been riding for hours now, Xanth had let go of the amount of time they had been riding, but the chills in the air and the orange sky told him that it was nearing evening time. None of the men riding with him knew where he had in mind that he was going to, not even Xanth, he had not bothered to ask when they had left the castle because it was Ryder’s hobby to go riding occasionally but this one bothered him a little because they had been riding head on and Ryder didn’t have the slightest will of turning back.
They had just passed the outskirts of Kilead when Ryder pulled his horse to slow down and so did the rest. They had passed the last village only minutes ago but they were so far away that they could not even see the smoke rising from the chimneys. They were still in Astaroth, but had left t
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“It’s time.”The study was always kept dimly lit, there was a reason he had not allowed windows to be cut in the walls, and it was because he never wanted the knowledge of whatever was in here to get out, and although smaller windows that could not fit a person would do just the thing, still, he had his own way as to how he wanted his things to be run. But more so, because the darkness was comfortable, and it hid him. And it welcomed him.The study was like his get away place, his sanctuary and his safe haven and save for Xanth, no one else was allowed in here. No one else.Xanth put down the book in his hands and turned to Ryder sitting uncomfortably on the only table in the small room. “Time for what?”Ryder took a deep breath in and then focused his attention on Xanth. “Time to go in search, for another Khione.”Xanth gave him a puzzled look, although he was sure that Ryder might not be able to read his
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The ride was anything but boring.Tezani was happy that her Lady had allowed her go on the ride with her as she could not remember the last time she had been able to leave the castle’s grounds, she was excited, but clearly not as excited as Lyra. Lyra could not sit still in the carriage and she kept looking from one window to the other, asking Tezani what this was and what that was. She liked Kilead, it was a busy village once they had gotten far away from the castle and unlike what she had imagined the people to be like; frustrated and abused and malnourished and hungered, it turned out that the opposite was the case.The people here were living in affluence and prosperity and she wondered how having a cold ruler such as Ryder, could not affect the people. Or did he treat them differently? Could not be so, but still, she felt like she had come to a totally different place.“Isn’t it strange?” She asked the question to Tezani but kept her
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