190 Mystery Man

"Alright," Fisher said, crossing his arms. "I'll bite. Tell me what you know. If I like what I hear, I'll set you free."

I gulped, licked my lips, and looked at the old man with an expression of fear and desperation.

"Bodrick approached me and my Sebyan friend when we got to Sosalk," I said. "We had escaped from Aslanor. There was a nasty fight between the mad wizard and the Church in there, you see. We both lost our home. They destroyed an entire forest. How powerful can one get?"

"Get to the point Darkstar," Fischer said, fuming.

"Anyway," I said. My eyes darted left and right, as though I expected someone to barge in on us at any moment. "Bodrick tells me there were some people in Merinsk that wanted to see him fail. He employed us to make him look weak, even stage his own assassination."

"That's what the entire incident in Sosalk was about?" Fischer asked.