Chapter 10, The Great Birds Oric had given up trying to sleep. He was tired but he just couldn’t manage it, too many thoughts were racing around his head. Starla kept up her claim that he would go and rescue the others still trapped in castle Krul and the town below it. She seemed genuinely surprised he didn’t want to do it; she had expected him to leap at the chance. But what if she was right and he did go?
Again, his head spun, it was as if his free will had been taken from him again, no longer a slave, but told of his path as if his own choice was irrelevant. And as far as he could see going back to Krulacre would not be easy, how could it be? In fact, it would be dangerous beyond measure, the Black Knight wanted his life after all. She seemed to think he was a hero; but he had already
