Chapter 4: A wild swan (2)
"Fuck."
The word slipped from Lucien's cracked lips before he could stop it, but neither soldier flinched. Instead, their eyes dimmed, as if the same grim thought had crossed their minds.
If they spoke without any proof their heads wouldnt be attached to them.
Lucien stared at them—these two half-starved boys who still stood up to salute him despite their condition. And detail only the newly recruited soldiers and a handful of veterans left behind—that made something twist in his gut.
Lucien stared at them two half-starved boys, barely a year older than him, yet they looked like children. Despite their condition, they still stood up to salute him. That alone stirred something in his gut.
Only newly recruited soldiers and a handful of veterans had been left behind. Why?
Was it the scent of danger or something far more sinister?
It didn't make sense. That sly baron—his father—had taken House Sallor's soldiers and left behind the loyal veterans of House Argrave.
He clenched his jaw. As he couldn't drive away the feelings why would baroness act like this not giving foods to him and soldiers. Is she didn't like his father using her soldiers for something dangerous or she create a twisted plan and outsmart his father and slowly assassinate him with her troops?
Three days ago... his father left.Three days ago... not only his, but the loyal soldiers' food had stopped.Three days ago... his father acted unusually, taking even the butler of the house.
Someone had definitely made a move. Maybe a baronial enemy of House Argrave who looted all the food or destroyed it, or maybe a newly oasis appeared causing territorial dispute.