Chapter 28: The Servant
After they got back to the horses, Heldon slipped away to put a proper bandage on his neck to hide the blue skin. When Janz received an envelope from his messenger dove, Heldon had hoped it would be from his younger brother.
However, Janz said it was from another knight, and Heldon’s worry darkened the back of his skull. He knew that if Erik was in trouble there was little he could do, yet he could send a response saying he wasn’t angry with him anymore.
Heldon reluctantly pushed his concern about Erik to the back of his mind as he mounted Midnight for the rest of their journey. The expedition would’ve been entirely silent if it wasn’t for Shrai’s snickering and the screeching from the hawk that had followed them.
Heldon felt Tival’s gaze tingle down from the crown of his head to his backside and up again for hours. At first, he had thought Tival was angry with him for putting him in a bad position with Janz.
But after a while, Heldon looked back to Tival.