Chapter Twenty-Seven
Vengeance
Valanandir had no trouble slipping away from his companions unnoticed. When he had seen the trace of a pathway leading toward the surrounding peaks of the Hamad Orom to the northeast, he had allowed himself to lag behind.
The others would be fine without him. Lodariel and Daroandir would keep Iadrawyn safe. While he had hoped the Quenya would be in the possession of the drakhalu, he knew as soon as Iadrawyn had sensed the Quenya in the dark dragons’ mountain that their paths would separate. When he had devised the plan to infiltrate the dark lands, retrieving the Quenya had only been his secondary objective. He had a much more personal matter to attend to first.
Vlaz. The Orag of the drakhalu had not been at the head of his army when they had watched it p
