The Black Sword Trilogy: The Four Nations

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Author: Jeffery VanMeter
seemingly on fire.
    “I was equally impressed with how you ran and hid in the woods while thre e others were cut down and your own daughter almost had her throat cut.” Kenner growled.
    “How dare you speak to me that way…” Migran started.
    “And how dare you presume that you can continue to push me around. I’m not the same child I was after my father died and you took everything I had.”
    “That was for the good of the village.”
    “My father’s sword hanging over your fireplace is for the good of the village?  You making me buy back my own house from you was for the good of the village?”
                  Migran took a step back and then directed his attention at Terri.
    “And I suppose this is Terri, the wielder of the Blackwood Bow.”
    Terri gave a short bow.
    “At your service…”she began to say.
    “You’re not welcome here Walechian.  I suggest you…”
    “If you finish that sentence,” Ke nner interrupted “I will leave as well and never return.  I’ll take my cats, that have provided food and protection from wild beasts with me, I’ll burn the cabin my father built with his own two hands to the ground so that you can’t have it and then just before I leave…” He then stood close enough to Migran to almost be touching him.  “I will have my father’s sword back.”
    “You always were a selfish brat.” Migran spat.
    “And you’re a greedy old man who doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself.”
                  Just then a woman stepped in between them.
    “This is not the time or the place for this.” She said annoyed.  “This time is supposed to be dedicated to those we lost, not old grudges.”
    Kenner looked at her and bowed lower than Terri had ever seen.
    “You’re right as al ways Trinna.” Kenner said respectfully.
    “I still say the Walechian is not welcome.” Migran said.
    “Shut up, Migran.” Trinna said angrily at him.  “I won’t ask you two to shake hands, but you can at least be civil to each other for the rest of the night, can’t you?”
    Migran grunted at Kenner and stormed away.  After that, Trinna gave Kenner a stern look and walked away as well.
    “What a lovely man,” Terri said.  “Is he single?”
    “Believe it or not, he’s married.” Kenner answered.
    “I pity the woman that has to share a bed with him.”
                  As the sun went down, the fires were lit and the bodies of the fallen villagers were burned away so that their spirits could join the rest of the spirits of land, forest and sea.  Tears fell, songs were sung and as the night wore on, stories were being told of the villagers and the lives they shared.
                  Kenner and Terri were talking of the events of the last two years.
    “So the King’s in trouble?” Kenner asked.
    “I’m afraid so.  It seems both men and women have gone missing from the prisons in Kallesh.  Rumors have spread that they’ve been used as some kind of vicious sport for the King’s guards.  There have even been hints that the King himself may even be involved.”
                  Kenner remembered his cousins and the fate that befell them at the hands of, then Prince Melkur.  He also remembered King Philas covering up the crime by sending the witnesses like himself and Captain Krall to the far reaches of Walechia.
                  “What could potentially happen to the King?” Kenner asked, not looking at her.  He didn’t want her to see the pain he felt at the mention of those awful events.
    “Well, potentially,” She began, “He could be deposed and the highest member of the Congress would be next in line as Melkur has no heir as of yet.”
    “Sounds good to me.” Kenner added.
    “The problem is,” Terri continued “that the witnesses all have a habit of either disappearing or being convicted of other crimes and executed.  The King has suddenly taken a special interest in crime lately;
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