Chapter 30
Castien touched the stone that would open the door to the Keep. Beside him, Theirn sighed with relief when it worked. “Did you think it would not obey my touch?” Castien signed with a grin.
“No, yes, well maybe if…you know.”
“If he thought we had been captured or killed.”
“Yes. After all he does not know, yet.”
“What do I not know?” Daeron asked from behind them. “That you made it home? I knew the moment the dolphins deposited you on the beach. I must say, how you managed that is a tale I look forward to hearing but not this moment. Come.”
An hour later, after they had been greeted by their friends and companions and well fed by Malcolm’s good wife, Castien and Theirn were seated at a table in the War Room. Theirn related the story of what had happened while Daeron, his fa
