Chapter 21: Firstman to the Rescue“Could you read it again, please?” asked Asa, walking with bare feet back and forth across the floor and using his fighting staff to help him avoid the furniture.
“That's all it says.” His brother Vance read the small message from the bird's leg for the third time, “Attack. Sea Lords.”
Mantuan and Tolan came in, “You summoned us back, my king? Is it more urgent than the council problem?”
Asa nodded, “Yes. I may have sent Gordon and the others to their deaths.”
Vance handed him the note, “Sea Lords.”
Mantuan read the note and said, “We must send a rescue party. I will leave right away.”
“No,” said King Asa, “I need you here to deal with this council whatever it is.”
“I will go, my king,” said Tolan.
Asa's brother agreed, “Good. Me and Devver can con
