Chapter 20
King Hermon Cordillera drank warm ale, polishing a pint in a few big gulps. He smacked his lips together after, and let out a satisfied ahhh. He urinated inside the garderobe, and left the facilities closing the door behind him.
Cordillera was anxious to return to the dungeon. The castle was mostly silent. It was the middle of the night, and his people were sleeping. Two guards stood by strategic doorways, and others patrolled outside and along the ramparts. Anyone else awake and moving about would be stopped as suspicious, questioned as to why they were wandering, but he hadn’t seen or heard another soul. He didn’t like the idea of Ida alone with the wizards.
In fact, the more he thought about it, the less he liked it. He hurried back toward the locked door. His footfalls bo
