Loki’s Deceit by Donovan Cook EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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SUMMER AD 854, THREE WEEKS AFTER SVEN’S RETURN TO RIBE
Gerold looked up when the cell door opened and braced himself for the
beating he knew was coming. He had lost track of how many days he had
been in the cell in the tower at Ehresburg, the capital of Saxony, and he
often wondered if this was what hell was like. He thought he had been
lucky when they escaped Ribe, that cursed town in Denmark, even though
they had lost Charles, the little bastard he wished he had never met. When
Charles had stabbed the leader of the group sent to capture him, Gerold had
thought of nothing else but to flee.
With a storm brewing, he and the two
remaining spies had made it to the dead leader’s ship and had to threaten the
captain to sail before the Danes got hold of them. The man had not wanted
to, not at night when he did not know the waters well enough. And not with
a storm coming. But a knife at the throat from one of the spies had
convinced the captain to change his mind. As soon as they left the river and
made it out to open waters, the storm erupted and Gerold had been
convinced he was going to die as the ship was tossed around by giant waves
and lightning lit up the sky. One of the spies had died during the night from
an injury he had picked up while fleeing the Danes, and Gerold had not
understood why the other claimed he had been the lucky one. When the
ship had docked in Hamburg two days later, Gerold – weakened from
constant vomiting – and the remaining spy had been greeted by warriors
sent by the Duke Liudolf of Saxony, who escorted them back to Ehresburg,
his capital. And that was where hell had started for Gerold.
He had thought that God was smiling on him when he first spotted
Charles hiding under a stall in the market in that small town on the border.
Only that morning his mentor, an old spy for Duke Liudolf who pretended
to be a trader, had told him to be on the lookout for the red-haired son of a
Danish warrior in Duke Liudolf’s employ. The Danish warrior had been
killed, but not after he had slain a few of the duke’s men and the boy had
disappeared.
Gerold had found the small boy who had told him that he
needed to go to Denmark to find his grandfather, a jarl in the north and
Gerold had convinced him to go with them as they were also headed there.
Everything had gone according to plan and they had made out of
Hügelburg with the boy hidden in their cart. His mentor even kept up his
role as a drunk and belligerent trader the following day so the boy would
not suspect anything. The only thing that had surprised Gerold was when
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