Book 9: Chapter 6
Objectively, Ninym was treated with great civility. After leaving with the men, she was led to a carriage, blindfolded, and taken to a mansion in the middle of nowhere.
Although the Flahm woman was locked in a guarded, windowless chamber, it was spacious and well furnished. Ninym could enjoy hot baths and food at her leisure. The place was actually quite comfortable.
Is this a leader’s vacation villa?
Ninym wondered if that very leader had staged this abduction, but Ulbeth was a foreign country. She didn’t have enough information to guess her captor’s identity.
I’d like to escape at least long enough to get a sense of where I am, but…
Fleeing the mansion only to get caught again to map out the surrounding area was a comical notion. Nonetheless, for someone all alone in an unfamiliar place, it wasn’t a futile effort.
I wonder how Wein is doing…
Was he okay? Was he worried? How was the enemy using her abduction against him? Ninym was alive, which meant that she still had value as a hostage and that Wein had accepted her captor’s demands.
Given the situation, the culprits must be from the western or the southern cities.