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Authors: Janet Lane-Walters
“I don’t believe you.” Hag Mother pushed Lorana toward the gate. Lorana felt blood trickle down her neck. She slowly entered the courtyard.
The grille was gone. Lorana saw wizards and guards being bound by ropes. “See.”
Hag Mother pushed her toward the missing grille. “Arton, you will cease what you are doing,” the old woman shouted.
He turned. His wand froze in mid-air. “Let her go. You have no power.”
The crone slumped. The knife clattered on the stones. One of the clansmen grasped Lorana’s arm.
Dragon flew overhead.
‘I saw four ships. They are coming here.’
Lorana walked to Arton’s side. “I’ll go with the clansmen to the cells with all these people. We will offer those related to the clans a chance to stay.”
Arton nodded. “We’ll need to search the suites of the wizards for things to pay the traders to take those who are leaving.”
Lorana and the clan leaders moved among the people and made the offer. Arton and a dozen men strode away. They would go to the beach and wait for the ships.
The following morning they herded those who were leaving to the shore. Dragon flew above them. The captains and cargo masters waited for them.
“What is this?” one of the captains asked.
Arton pulled the orange-tipped wand free. “You are taking these people from our shores.”
“Why?”
“They are banished.”
Lorana held four bags in her hands. “In each bag you will find jewels, gold, and other valuables. There is more in those three carts.”
“What if we refuse?”
Arton activated the wand. He set a bush on fire. Next he burned rocks and sand on the shore. “Your ships will burn as easily.”
With no more arguments, the prisoners were divided into four groups and rowed to the ships. The cargo masters assessed the goods.
Hag Mother turned. “We will return and you will learn only wizards are fit to rule.”
One of the clansmen lifted her and set her in the small boat. As the men rowed away, she continued to scream the threat.
“Will you accept traders?” a ship’s captain asked.
“No.” Lorana and Arton joined the shouts from the clansmen and women.
They stood on the shore and watched until all the sails vanished. She turned to him. “Will they return?”
“I pray not, but we’ll remain alert.” He pulled her into his arms. Their lips touched.
Dragon landed.
‘They are gone.’
Lorana smiled.
‘Yes. Now you and Arton have time to make and lay eggs.’
Laughter erupted. “We’ll do just that,” Arton said.
Lorana looked into his eyes. “We will grow old together with love.”
The End
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About the Author
Janet Lane Walters is a multi-published award winning author. To date she has published more than 40 novels, 10 novellas, 4 non-fiction books, and a number of short stories and poems. She lives in the scenic Hudson River valley, a setting in many of her novels. She bills herself as the eclectic writer and writes romances, from sweet to spicy, cozy mysteries, alternate world fantasies, historicals, paranormals and fantasy from YA to adult. She is the mother of 4 and the grandmother of 7. She lives with her psychiatrist husband who has no desire to cure her obsession with writing. Among her hobbies are Astrology and composing music. She also admits to housework as a hobby, for isn’t that what one does in their spare time.
