CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
The Barbarian sailors loved the Ridon steam ship. It had a speed almost three times faster than any ship they had seen before. Nobody wanted the job of feeding wood into its engine though: it was deeply unpleasant. Being generally stoic however, they each diligently took turns to brave the engine area, full of smoke, to add more wood to the boiler.
Roubar wondered how he would get King Alex to lend them the Royal Seal. After all he might feel that the defeat of the revolutionary regime by Dark Elves was their just desserts. But he needed to be convinced of the bigger picture. If Asperia fell then Damolia would be next, in fact they might already be under attack.
It suddenly occurred to Roubar that there was no guarantee that Damolia wasn’t already under Dark Elve
