Trail of the Gods: The Morcyth Saga Book Four Read Online Free PDF

now is a toothbrush and he’d be set but he hasn’t been able
to locate one yet, not to mention a suitable toothpaste. He figures
he’ll have to make one himself, but hasn’t had the time yet.
    Once he’s clean, he rests in the water and
just enjoys the sensation of being surrounded by it. Everyone here
thinks him slightly crazy to want a bath every day, except Miko who
tends to join him more often than not. Most of the others wouldn’t
bathe at all if he hadn’t made it a requirement. Everyone has to
bathe at least once a week, more if they’re exceptionally stinky.
He’s going to have good hygiene on his place.
    When he finally brings himself to leave the
pool, he dries himself on the towel Ezra had given him and then
dons the clean clothes. Back at the house, he drops the towel and
the dirty clothes in a basket for Ezra to wash later on.
    She already has a plate of eggs and tubers
ready for him upon his return. Jiron is there as well as Jorry,
both looking as if they had too much fun the night before. Between
bites, he asks, “You guys okay?”
    “Just a little hung over is all,” admits
Jiron.
    “We didn’t get into trouble though,” offers
Jorry.
    “Did you hear anything?” he asks them.
    “Not too much,” says Jiron. “They might’ve
known we are with you so didn’t gossip as they might of otherwise.
But the general opinion of the people there is that you’re
okay.”
    “That’s it?” he asks. “Just okay?”
    “Well, it’s better than being called evil or
demon spawned,” jokes Jorry. “At least they accept you and aren’t
afraid of you.”
    “That’s something, at least,” agrees James.
He sees them exchange glances and asks, “What?”
    “Well, one traveler who was passing through
asked if you were possessed by a demon,” Jorry explains.
    “Why did he ask that?” he asks.
    “Seems someone fitting your description is
said to have been possessed by a demon a while back,” replies
Jiron. “In some town called Willimet, there’s a woman who’s
claiming that you were.”
    “Oh my god!” exclaims James. “That’s
absurd.”
    “You know this woman?” asks Jorry
incredulously.
    “In a way,” he admits. “Here’s what
happened…” He relates to them the events as actually transpired
back in Willimet. When he gets to the part where he and Miko are
forced to leave the angry crowd, Jiron can’t stop himself as he
starts laughing.
    “You needn’t worry though,” Jorry says, a
grin on his face as well. “The people around here don’t take any
stock in it. They just dismiss it as idle gossip.”
    “That’s good news,” James says, breathing a
sigh of relief.
    “But it makes for a good story,” Jiron adds.
“I expect it to spread fast.”
    “Can’t be helped I suppose.” Changing the
subject, he says, “I plan on going into town today. Need to see the
blacksmith.”
    “What for?” Jorry asks.
    “Want a special chest made,” he replies, not
expanding any further on why.
    “Like some company?” Jiron asks him.
    “Yes, I would,” he says. “Plan on leaving
right after breakfast.”
    Finishing his last bite, Jiron says, “Well
then, I’ll just go get the horses ready while you finish
eating.”
    “Thanks,” James says.
    Jiron gets up and leaves the kitchen through
the back door. James finishes eating quickly and then goes to his
room where he fills one of his belt pouches with thirty gold coins.
Then he returns to the kitchen and leaves through the back door.
Making his way over to his workshop, he searches through his sack
of crystals for five of the largest, all roughly the same size.
Once he has them in another of his pouches, he leaves the workshop
and heads over to the barn.
    Outside the workshop, he can smell the meat
being smoked in the smokehouse. Glancing over to it, he sees Miko
and Illan sitting in a couple of chairs, talking. Looks like Illan
is instructing him in the finer points of smoking meat.
    As he approaches the barn, Jiron comes