Rescue

"We are looking for a man named Arthur" said Lorgar

"He has been missing for a week and hasn't been seen since." Replied the bartender.

After a long two-hour discussion Lighting and Lorgar got all the information they needed. That a few months ago the attitude of the king suddenly changed. They later also learned that people who didn't like the changed king the very next minute loved him. Lighting and Lorgar also heard something about witches working for the king. They were concerned since this king sounded similar to Appen and he used his entire kingdom for a witch hunt. They also found out that everyone in this bar had a loved one being 'controlled' by the king. After learning more, they learned that the witches were staying in the castle but in the dungeon.

"How dare this Montego king" shouted Lighting.

"Let's go kill him right now." Said Lorgar.

"Wait. Let's save the witches first and contact Nightingale to help" replied Lighting

Lorgar was taken aback for a second because Lighting was usually one to act on a whim but this time she was the one that thought things through first. After staying in Greycastle for a year she got to know everybody habits and personalites. She would have loved to see Wendy's face when Lighting acted rationally of her own accord.

Lighting took out a box with a stem on it and pressed a button to talk. I think the king called box a radio and it worked on waves, she had no idea what it had to do with the ocean but as long as it worked. Roland offered to teach her about it but she lost him as soon as he said frequency, what the heck is that. After talking for a few minutes Lighting came back and said that Nightingale wasn't coming but Margie was. After waiting for about two hours Margie arrived in another invention of his majesty's I believe he called it a prop plane. There were five planes and he told us that the first five to be able to use it correctly would be called the Red Baron squad and were to wear a red scarf. I think he also said something about Snoopy but it sounded like a strange word so she must have heard it wrong. The Red Baron squad included: Wendy, Tilly, Scroll, Andrea and surprisingly Ashes. Everybody surmised that in order to stay with Tilly Ashes studied 24 hrs. a day to be able to fly along with Tilly. Actually, after the test was over Ashes passed out in the plane and heard Roland mutter something about a DUI similarity and somebody asked him about it. He told us not to mind it and even helped take Ashes back to his room, to Ashes infatuation when she learned what happened.

Margie arrived surprisingly with a tagged along Nightingale. They asked all the details of what we found over the last few hours while waiting for Margie. Along the way to the castle Margie asked

"I thought Maggie came with you?"

"She did" affirmed Lorgar.

"Where is she?" asked Nightingale.

"She went to get us lunch." said Lighting.

"What?" asked Margie.

"We heard the large boars were the tastiest in this area from a trader" stated Lighting.

"Make sure she doesn't scare anyone" replied Nightingale. Referring to the different forms of flying animals that can give a fright to the citizens.

After avoiding several guards, we found out were exactly in the dungeon the two witches were being held. We knocked out the guards and then had Nightingale get the magic restraint cuffs off. While doing this neither witch said a word to us but just gave a look at us like we this couldn't be true, that it was too good to be true.

"Are you both okay?" asked Margie.

Neither of them responded to the question she just asked.

"What should I do with these two guards" asked Lorgar.

Nightingale overcome with anger because she hasn't see witches treated like this in over a year made a hasty decision.

"Kill them." She coldly stated.

Lorgar gave Nightingale a strange look but after seeing the hatred in her eyes she changed her arm into a wolves and clawed at the guard.

"Wait!" said one of the witches who was now unshackled.

Lorgar stopped in her tracks and looked at the witch that just shouted. They didn't say anything when we were helping them with their cuffs but when we were going to kill their captor. Lorgar thought something strange was going on. She changed her arm back and they decided to have a discussion before killing the guards.

After freeing the witches and getting them out of the cell we found more information about what was going on in Silversight. They said the king was taken over by someone else and that he changed for the worse. The thing that shocked them most of all was that the King had a power to control people and even animals they surmised. All the Greycastle witches thought this was impossible, since he was a man, until Nightingale used her power to discover magic power was on the two guards they incapacitated. This is why the witches didn't want them killed because the guards were acting not of their own accord. They didn't discover the magic power earlier because Nightingale had Margie practice her power to sneak in the castle. In that time Nightingale didn't activate her magic power because she wanted Margie to be able to sneak into places on her own without her help so she had this skill to rely on in the future. After leaving the castle they went to the bar from earlier to have a lengthier discussion and found out that Arthur was most likely dead. They learned this from a new patron that came into the bar after they left otherwise the would have already known about Arthurs fate. They all quickly decided that they needed to get rid of this king quickly. The Silversight witches worried that it would start a mutiny or riot if the king was killed but they told the witches not to worry that Roland Wimbledon would help them out with food, clothing, riots and even regicide if needed. They Silversight witches asked about the controlled people and what would happen if they killed the king.

"Not to worry" said Nightingale. " I have seen several different powers over several years. On the prison guards I saw at the castle they had two strings attached to their bodies which headed in the same direction, towards the king I believe. If we kill the king the strings of power will disappear and the citizens be back to their normal selves."

The Silversight witches looked relieved and also the man that told them about Arthur. Nightingale allowed him to hear about it because her power was telling her he wanted to help the citizens and the witches.

"Lets kill a King" stated Nightingale with a smile.