Chapter 23: Return Home

Being a necromancer had been so much easier when he had not cared, personally, about the people who died. Was it better or worse that he was stepping out of the shadows and joining the ranks of the sacred who so brightly served the Goddess? "What do these demons want?" he asked. "They should not be here. They stay close to their border and the edges of the country where they can more easily hunt. Why did they go to so much trouble to travel around the royal castle and deep into the country to feast upon poor farmers?" The words they were scared echoed through his head, but Koray did not voice the words.

"I don't know," Emel replied. "We need to return to the castle and let the High Paladin know all that has transpired. We're pushing on to the castle. We stop only for the horses."