AngelofGold

Chapter 6: "Jomo Tells a Story" The twelve companions stared, with varying feelings, at the expanse below. After much walking, what felt like the last several miles (Russell voiced his opinion that the trip actually felt like a year) was solely upwards, they reached the top of a high hill. They now saw that the hill was part of a naturally occurring bowl stretching away for miles on either side. Before them was a grassy slope, and at the bottom of that was a short walk, and then the canopy of a vast forest. A river coursed through it, going in on the left and out on the right. Past the forest, they could see the spires of their destination.

Chapter 2: "The Hellfire Club" The Seigneur was evidently a fast healer. By the next morning he was ready to talk over the terms of release for the French royal concert party – a triune of would-be heels called Pierre, Jacques and Albert – and their immediate deportation back to their home country to face judgement by their own adolescent autocrat. Not in the mood for a major international incident when it could be avoided, Elizabeth had agreed, but made it clear that none of the three men would ever be welcome within England's borders again. As they were hurried into their carriage in the courtyard, Florentin made a disgusted rema