“The day dragged endlessly. Finally, the last court case finished and the judge got ready to leave. For a while Eva thought he might have forgotten her, but then the judge told a couple of guards to gather her up and they set off for the king’s palace. They walked quite a distance into the middle of the town. Eva could see Tarc following along a ways behind her little group. The palace proved to be a huge stone building. There was a separate wall around the palace and its grounds. The judge stop...ped at the guardhouse outside the wall and spoke to the soldiers there. A guard trotted away into the complex. When he returned, the guards opened the gate and led Eva and the judge inside. Eva glanced back at Tarc one last time. As they took her to the main palace building she saw a substantial group of smaller outbuildings stood inside the wall as well. As Eva wended through the palace, she wondered what kind of man the king of Realth would prove to be. All she knew of him came from the laws posted by the gate.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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