Red Fang Chapter 28

Torchlight flickered on the slick walls overhead as Toli was dragged along the dungeon floor and dropped in front of a cell. He opened his eyes and grimaced at the pain flooding his body. A heavy boot landed on his chest and a face loomed close.

“Still alive are you then? Good, someone wants to speak to you,” the gaoler said before taking his boot away and stepping back.
“I don’t know what you think—”
“Silence,” a second man said, and Toli turned his aching head as King Aeld stepped forward, still draped in his bearskin cloak. “I want to know why you did it? I would have rewarded you handsomely but instead, you betrayed me.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Toli said and spat blood as he tried to sit up, but the gaoler struck him in the leg with a club, knocking him back down. A sharp pain lanced through Toli’s chest as he tried to fight back, and blackness swirled at the edge of his vision.
“You want to play that game, do you?” the gaoler said and darted back in, hitting Toli in a flurry of sharp blows that he was unable to defend against. He curled up against the wall and covered his head.

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The Thousand Lakes

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Nestled in the shadow of the Intraana mountain range is a vast land of marsh and forest. Rivers pour in from both the north and south flooding the region until it's more lake than land and yet it is home to more life than any outsider could imagine. Hidden among the reed beds are villages and farms, not all sited on dry land, some float. The villages of the marsh elves drift with the seasons, following the migrations of birds and fish, ignored by the humans as long as they don't get too close. A human king claims dominion and is ready to shed blood to prove it, not his but those of his men, marching them into the swamp to kill and needlessly die. But there are still places where people can hide from tyrants and create homes and communities of their own.

Parent Plot

The Red Fang

Related Characters

• Aeld Commaln
• Toli

Related Locations

• Arshen
• The Thousand Lakes