will and alyss made their way to the 6th floor where Duncan's office was situated. they happened to come across crowley and Horace heading up at the same time and nodded greetings to each other as they continued to master the levels. crowley started grumbling as they neared the top something about old joints and that he wasn't getting any younger the 3 younger companions promptly ignored him quite used to the complaints from halt.
they arrived outside the heavy door and alyss stepped forward to knock bang bang "come in" came the muffled reply they all filed in alyss first followed by will and crowley with Horace bringing up the rear. the king smiled delightedly looking up from his paperwork "welcome all of you" he said "please sit" they did so. Duncan pushed the paper to the side as another knock was heard "come in" the king called again the door opened to emmit a slightly built young man with brown tousled hair "hello king" he said cheerfully moving forward skandians will guessed as 2 more figures entered the room one was young but heavily built whist the other was even bigger with just one hand. Duncan beckoned them to sit and they did so "now you're all here lets get started alyss,will,crowley,horace this is hal the herons skirl stig and thorn"
they traded greetings as will looked at thorn something registered and he grinned "had a change of crew have we thorn" as he recognised the burly skandian. thorn had been one of eraks crew when will had been captured and had been instrumental in the shield wall protecting the archers against the temuji reaking havoc. thorn grinned as well and chuckled delightedly "i see you're as sharp as ever will treaty" hal puzzled that the 2 men had already met said surprised "you know each other" they nodded "been a while" will said the king decided to intervene there "good it'll help things along if you're already partially acquainted" he paused then continued addressing hal "when can you leave" hall pursed his lips considering the questions "tommorrow night at the earliest" the skirl replied duncan nodded "right well i'll let you all sort out the rest i'll talk to alyss since you'll do the main negotiations on the treaty will i want you there for support backup and if anything goes wrong to find the less messy way out of it and if you can't figuare out what to do i'm sure horace can hit em over the head for you" duncan continued cheerily
"yes sir"
"then if we're all settled alyss i'll fill you in on more of the boring details and crowley i want an explanation on how you got so caught up on all you're paperwork" crowley chuckled "will tricked all the other rangers into doing it your majesty i'll explain later but i should probably get going."
"of course i'll see you all tommorrow before you leave" they all stood ecxept alyss and exited closing the door behind them crowley slipped off immediately leaving will and horace with the 3 grinning skandians.
"thorn it's good to see you again!"
"and you will treaty" thorn attempted to give the young ranger a bear hug but before he could wills 6th sense kicked in and he kicked the legs out from underneath the sea wolf letting him fall heavily to the floor with a grunt much to his friends protests although they didn't last long as a quarrel from a crossbow thudded into the wall where he was standing instinctively will swung the long bow off his shoulder loaded an arrow and let fly at the head that now showed around the corner. the purple clad figuare tried to move out of the way but just ended up having the arrow transfixed in his shoulder he let out a cry of pain. 2 more men appeared from around the corner aiming crossbows at the small group and let fly as well. tossing away the bow that was only cumbersome in the narrow space will drew his saxe and throwing knife chopping one of the arrows in half as it flew at his chest while letting the other rickochae off the metal of his knife. seeing the arrows disarmed so easily the 2 asassins as that was what they were drew knives and dropped the crossbows they went to charge the young ranger but was pushed aside as stig rushed past whirling the huge battleaxe like a toy a very scary image on his face he chopped one down while hit the other in the legs with the back of the weapon will moved forawd once again to inspect the attackers the purple clothing and the weapons identified them as genovsens. he pulled out thumb cuffs and did up their hands behind their back discarding all their weapons while he did so. "very neat" one of the skandians commented from behind him "will looked up at their expectant faces and looked at stig "thanks for that" stig shrugged and grinned "i'll never pass on a fight" will grinned "i guess we better find out what these beaties wanted" he turned and dragged the 2 injured genovsens to lean against the wall "horace would you mind fetching the king?" he nodded and walked back to the door not deigning to knock. he returned with duncan and alyss on his tail "will whats going on?" the king demanded
"not sure your majesty but i plan to find out" he indicated the limp bodies of the assasins grimly.
sorry for the cliffhanger and bad editing as well as the slow update i've been working on it a bit as well as my other books. anyway please vote comment and follow i'll try to update more regularly now i'm on holidays:)☕🏹🪓📝
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