Chapter 15
Fear and Chocolate
While Rolem was busy showing the new king Asa around the palace, the firstcouncilor went to see Brenddel. He was still uneasy about what had happened with the crowds. In his many years as firstcouncilor, he had never lost the love of the crowd before. He was always able to make them love him, the fools, even in his younger days. He tried to push those thoughts from his mind. Right now, he needed to know what was happening in the search for Gordon and the traitor Loren.
“Anything yet?” asked the firstcouncilor.
Brenddel reported, “We're making progress. We have found out where five of the seven waterships were headed. Three of them had pilots that we suspect are troublemakers. We found several kingdom symbols turned upside down on them. The other two ships
