“I can’t believe you did this!” a girl’s voice shouted from across the hall. “Not sure I want to stay in one place all the time… but the beds and food are better, you have to admit that.” Unless you contemplate a change of profession to house guard?”
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Do they truly need us anymore? Adventurers,” a wave of the shining-black hand with its three clawed fingers, “are usually expected to Adventure. And they have already begun hiring a household. The antennae waved and the cutting jaws click-clacked. “I note you don’t mention Lady Victoria.” “No one knows who or what did it, and if it, or they, are after the family – they could be just a week or two behind.” “Urelle and Kyri lost their parents, and then their brother,” Ingram said, with an inward twinge at the thought of his own family.
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But the Vantages are well moved into their new home, and aside from that first night, there has been nothing of note.” “ You wanted to stay and help, and I did not gainsay you. “We agreed to stay and help.”Īfter almost two years together, Ingram could read Quester’s expressions – which combined posture, gestures of antennae, and particular scents – almost as well as he could human, and what he smelled now was a tolerant amusement. The seven-foot-tall Iriistiik was incredibly quiet despite size and his insectoid, chitinous armor. Ingram Camp-Bel kept himself from jumping in startlement only because he was used to Quester managing to surprise him. “Our mission ended some days ago, Ingram.” And the very night he and Quester set out, Urelle discovers there are assassins already on their trail and rushes to warn them – and following her, Victoria, a retired Adventurer forced once more into the field.īut more is at stake than they can realize, for the ancient Cycle of Aegeia – the living morality play between the Reason of Athena and the Passion of Ares – is in peril of destruction a monstrous impostor has taken the place of the God of War, and begins to orchestrate an ending to Aegeia itself.Īnd the false Ares knows that one of the four travelers is the only thing standing between him and the downfall of the gods… Then Ingram receives an impossible message: he, a fugitive and exile from Clan Camp-Bel, is desperately needed by the Clan in distant Aegeia, a thousand miles and more away, for a mission so secret it cannot be included in the recall.
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When Ingram and Quester had seen their clients, Lady Victoria Vantage and her young niece Urelle Vantage, safely to their new home, they had thought their work finished, the time come to find new Adventures – despite the not-well-hidden interest between Ingram and Urelle.