Chapter 17- Amir

Treason. Pure and outright treason was the only way for Amir to describe the ridiculous situation that he was stuck in. The king had been beheaded in his own throne room. His first-born son and the prince of this kingdom was in the dungeons, awaiting his sentence from the new king. Lord Black, his wife and the Seltar household were also killed as traitors to king Edgar Dormer.

He figured all that out when he was summoned to the castle’s training grounds with the rest of the surviving guards. There were only twenty of them left alive after the previous night. From more than three hundred men stationed in the castle grounds, only twenty had survived the mass murder. Amir wanted to know exactly how Edgar and his men had managed to best them with so little number of forces, but now was not the time to duel on such questions.