Maledictus Terra Book 3: Vetitum Nemus Part 103
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“Did you really believe that I would send you, my daughter, and Mortis isn’t a situation I hadn’t scoped out myself?” asked Mary as she stepped into the crypt.
“Are you saying you don’t trust me?” demanded Letulah.
Mary took her time to ponder this as Ostia took up her shield once more, moving it to her back. The queen then looked her old friend in the eye and simply said.
“Do you trust me?”
Letty sighed heavily and rolled her eyes. “Fair enough.”
“The point was that I didn’t have enough information to share with those I was sending out. This is regardless of any trust between the two of us. We already lost Johnathan, and I will not lose my heir.”
“Didn’t seem that worried about sending your boys from here.”
“My ‘boys’, as you put it, are far better equipped for their journey than my daughter is. I asked Ostia to look within the realms of the dead to see if anything strange was happening. Turns out, I was right to have some concerns.”
“The realm is in uproar. Spirits that have been slumbering for aeons are waking. Things that were meant to be left well enough alone are stirring. The dead are restless, and even corpses stir within their earthen blankets. A plague is coming.”
“I could have told you all of this.”
“Yet, you didn’t.” said Mary solemnly.
Letty opened her mouth to argue, but closed it. It was true. She hadn’t divulged too much. She touched her injured face, wondering what her husband would think of her if he were to see her now.
“I only know so much.” She admitted.
“Yet, they tried to kill you, so clearly, you know far more than what they want you sharing.”
“Location. Location. Location.” Said the Waith. “I can only go so far before wards get in my way. Helga would explore more, but harpies aren’t common to the area, so seeing one hanging around will be too obvious.”
“You have a harpy, too?”
“You’re deflecting.”
“Fine! I may have a way in, but if I were attacked, there is a chance that my contact may also have suffered the same fate.”
“Speak their name, and I will check beyond to see if they have joined the ranks of the aimlessly wandering spirits.”
“You trust her? She would be converted by the necromancers in the Death cult.” Demanded Letty as she looked at Mary.
“If that were even possible, don’t you think she and Mortis would have turned on us by now? Wouldn’t it have been easier to have used them to kill you, than bringing in an assassin? I find it somewhat amusing that you struggle to accept that we have those who have passed on assisting us when you were working with Barakus.”
“It was a necessity.” Defended Letty.
“And using a family resource isn’t?”
There was no way for Letulah to win this argument, and she knew it. Her own actions up until this point had painted her in a bad light. She needed help, but she had been burned so often before that she didn’t know that she could trust anyone.
“You will be hard-pressed to find any more loyal than those within this castle. Living or dead.” Said Ostia. “Now, that name?”
“Fine. Markus. Markus Fleetus.”
Ostia snorted, then recovered when she saw that Letty was serious.
“I will never understand these modern names. Species?”
“Half-elf or something like that.”
“You don’t know?” asked Mary.
“I don’t exactly hang with the hoity toity people, you do, Mary. We don’t always show our faces.”
“That is fair. My apologies. Ostia, if you will.”
And like that, Ostia was gone.
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