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me and nodded.
    “I take it your name is Alex Martin. Is that correct?”
    I nodded. “Yes, Sir.”
    The man smiled, but the one I had been talking to didn’t seem too happy about this one being here. “What are you doing here, Gale? I am Captain here and this is my wall. An axe-for-hire like you has no business here.”
    This Gale fellow eyed the other dwarf and smirked, “The Princess has deemed him important and requests his assistance.”
    He snorted, “What would a Princess need a human for?”
    Gale smiled slightly, tilting his head, but I could see real menace in his eyes. “Let me restate that; Crown Princess Elsa has requested his presence immediately. Shall I report to her that you are countermanding her order?”
    The color drained from the dwarf captain’s face as he immediately started barking orders for the rest of the men around him to build a ramp so we could pass. A nice gesture to be sure, but it did leave me to wonder what was so frightening about this Princess Elsa and why did she need me so badly. I watched politely for a little while as they tried to organize a ramp-building party, but I was losing my patience and so was Somnus.
    With a snort of blue flame, he swung us around a few hundred feet from the wall before returning square on to the structure at a lope. With one seemingly easy jump and an incredible amount of hang time, he nailed it and landed perfectly on top of the wall with the completely stunned dwarves leaping out of the way like fish from a barrel. But really, should they have been so surprised? I’m riding a huge flaming horse, but suddenly jumping a fifteen foot wall is a novel concept?
    The black-clad dwarf named Gale came over to me and bowed. “Sir Alex, I am Gale Grayboron, head of security for the heirs of the late King.”
    “Late King?”
    He nodded. “Yes, sadly King Gweir died almost a month ago and due to some rather unique complications, a new King cannot be crowned at the moment. Complications that Princess Elsa believes you may be able to help solve for us. So, naturally, I have been sent to deal with you, your steed, and your…companion.” He must have spotted Nia hiding on my shoulder. “So if you will please follow me, I believe a member of your party arrived before you.”
    “That would be Darroth.”
    “Mmm, yes, he told us of you. But he also said there would be more of you as well; it seems he was mistaken.”
    “We left with more people but three were detained at our last stop, so it’s just me and these two for now,” I said, dismounting and leading Somnus behind me as we walked briskly in the direction he indicated.
    “Then I pray you won’t need them, but I have a strong feeling that you will.”
    He was silent for the rest of the trip, not saying a word to anyone we passed either, so I decided to look around and learn what I could. The wall was much larger than it looked, stretching for what seemed miles in each direction, and effectively turning this entire valley into a fortress. Apparently, manpower to build these huge structures was not an issue for the dwarves. On this side of the wall, there was what I would call a shantytown, but it seemed to just be an outpost for the soldiers so they wouldn’t have to make the trip back into the mountain every night.
    Beyond the town was a heavily built road that led right up to the side of the mountain to an immense stone door that I initially thought was like the one at Sky Raven; but I quickly realized that it wasn’t. Stone was just used to cover the metal that lay beneath. The road went right up to the door with no other real defenses that I could see from the outside. But there must have been sentinels who could see us because the door swung open with the barest of sound as we approached.
    Again without a word, Gale continued inside and down the massive ramp before us and past a fair number of guards who filed out of dugout chambers artfully concealed in the walls themselves. Seemingly