Chapter 318 – The Messengers
Many things were happening lately, things that Old Smith had done all she could to prevent.
But it seemed the gods were against her.
She knew not what she had done to become entangled in these muddy waters, but maybe she did, after all. Her only crime was to be the friend of a troublesome man. Not only that, but to be so deep in debt that she had become a servant — to not say a slave — to a woman who could kill you with a single glance in the morning, and laugh with her family by night.
She had no say when Dain was proposed to retrieve a mythical artifact in exchange for a Blood Stone.
She had no say when Dain accepted the offer without a second thought, all because he had a younger brother with a blood affinity.
She had no say when Dain did what he should not, and found himself trapped in an unending battle against the Fairy of the Mythic Artifact, to see who would devour the other first.
