Chapter 10: The Missing King

For a moment, Niamh didn’t think she heard correctly. She shook her head, tilting her pointed ears towards the exhausted general.

“What do you mean, you don’t know?” she asked. A tingling of fear began to rise in her heart.

She followed General Konny into the hall.

“His horse went down in the heat of battle and I did not see him rise,” General Konnyr wiped dark, thick mud off his scar. “We’ve been looking for his body for three days.”

Niamh’s mouth dropped open. They lost King Lorcan. Her husband was gone.

“How do you lose a body? How do you lose a King?” She could barely breathe. “I strongly recommend you look harder.”

“My Lady, he’s gone. Lost.” The general stopped and looked at her sharply. “As I said, we have looked for three days.”

He turned his back and continued to walk away.

Niamh clenched her fists, “You will go back and look again. A body doesn’t just disappear. If you can’t find him, he may still be alive.”