Chapter 19“Bergen!”
The shriek shook the calm of the courtyard as Torunn threw back the door to the barracks.
“Bergen!” she said, gasping as she held herself up over the threshold. Among the armaments that dripped from every wall, splayed with the collection of round, wooden shields and arrows that littered the floor, Bergen stood, weighing the balance of a sword among the soldiers.
“She's gone!” Torunn said.
“Who's gone?” Bergen asked, looking up from the sword in his hand.
“Kallan!”
Bergen lowered the sword to his side.
“What do you mean 'gone'?”
“I went to her room and she's gone,” Torunn said, rushing into the barracks. She spoke faster than her heart pulsed. “I searched the castle. I asked the servants. I searched the grounds. No one has seen her.”
“Did you check the stables?
