Chapter 10: Never Challenge a Wyvern“No! Come on, I learned this spell when I was three. Mothers teach this protection spell to their babies because it’s so simple even a toddler could get it. It’s two words!” Tarquin broke off in disgust and turned away from the watch volunteer. How in all the hells the man could’ve lived even the few years he’d managed without knowing any protective hearth magic at all was beyond Tarquin’s capacity to understand.
He wiped the sweat off his forehead. The effort of teaching the watchman anything was heating his blood, despite the chill of the late afternoon. Tarquin cleaned his palm on his surcoat and stared out at the opposite end of the bailey, trying to control his angry breathing.
There was either one or three days left before the haldur came, depend
