My jaw dropped. “He can’t be serious” I blurted out. “He’s the one that assassinated everyone, isn’t he?”
Halvor nodded and said “It’s a political ploy to get us peacefully into Inhar and then hold us hostage until he kills us, or we rot to death in a dungeon.”
I sighed. “So what do we do now? Do we pretend to accept to gain entry into Inhar without difficulty, and then try to find loyal citizens once we arrive?”
Halvor thought for a moment. “You know, that’s not a bad idea. We could go there under the rouse that we accept his so called invitation, and then once we are on his lands we unleash hell. Especially since there’s also the chance that we will be met with his armies upon even setting one foot in his kingdom.”
I nodded. “If he was able to plot the murders of an en
