The Castle Keep ~ by SaralynArati

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Story continues on this doll: httpswww.dolldivine.com/High-Fantasy/SaralynArati-3065502 - (Also, Robin the Bubble Magician and Mark Frost belong to LadyLeaf.)

7 years ago

SaralynArati

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"Well," Robin replied, "I suppose it's just as well we hadn't made a plan of action, yet. Now everything will have to change." Briefly he exchanged a look with his flatmate. "So, what are we going to do now?" the Bubble Magician asked Marea. She took a deep breath. "We continue spying on the stronghold of the Yelaadim. And I call Gran. This time she simply has to come herself; the Traitor represents a threat beyond any of us, and all of us put together. Hopefully she's feeling well."

7 years ago

SaralynArati

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Robin had already been awake, in anticipation of his turn at watch, but Mark was still napping lightly. Waving a cup of Robin's strong coffee under his nose brought him to full consciousness in no time, however. Quickly, on the way back to the last cover the Yelaadim permitted to grow in the area surrounding their fortress, Marea briefed the two men on what she'd seen. "If she remains in there, that will simplify her identification, but complicate our position here tremendously," Mark said.

7 years ago

SaralynArati

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Marea had nearly fallen out of the tree where she was hidden, surveying the recently located castle of the Yelaadim, when the woman, obviously a Dark Sister, had walked up to the front gate and been allowed inside. That had to be the Traitor! She'd waited a while only to make sure that nothing else immediate was going to happen, before going back to camp to wake Robin the Bubble Magician and Mark Frost. Since this wasn't a crisis and it was daylight, she let Tylyr and Belandvyn sleep for now.

7 years ago

SaralynArati

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It was a lie, of course, but the Yelaadim didn't know that. In truth, they loathed each other, but the Yelaadim were as eager for an Alu Sage under their control as Sar Vlad had been, and thus served the Witch begrudgingly, with the intent of double crossing her. Soon the Traitor was admitted into the Keep, and her backup plan set in motion. She would find it unpleasant staying with them, yet they clearly required supervision, and she couldn't afford to return to her own home near Ankanas.

7 years ago

SaralynArati

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She hadn't compensated them for their efforts, either, though, so the Yelaadim hadn't bothered to tell the Traitor that her golden eyed man was really an Oakenling. Presenting herself at the gatehouse, the Witch demanded to speak to the highest ranking Yaldah present. The High Mistress had established last time, merely because their patriarchal attitude annoyed her, that her witchcraft would only work for another female, and to discuss strategy with a Yeled would therefore be wasted breath.

7 years ago