Chapter 25 - Cloud Whale
Angor went back to his room to continue with Jon’s puzzles. He even missed several meals. In the following ten days or so, Angor heard about the story between Easley and Dove: A nobleman humiliated a young girl to death, the girl’s childhood friend rose up in anger, lived a hard life while bearing the great hatred in mind, and finally changed his fate and killed the nobleman by his own hand.
That was a lot of déjà vu, yet very acceptable. The laws were against the poor, and nobles were free to do whatever they like. Justice was only brought up when people were from the same class.
Angor actually sympathized Easley upon hearing the story. Angor was a noble himself, but he always received education from the Earth and did not consider his class as important. However, another story he heard next changed his attitude towards Easley.
Dove went to the dining hall alone that day, because Easley had already slaughtered every single one of Dove’s followers. Some of the victims were smaller families from the Central Empire who clung to big families for protection, some were new followers Dove recruited on the ship, some were even pretty girls or talented people Dove brought here by force. The second and third types of people did not even have anything to do with Easley, and several of them were just like Easley himself. Yet Easley still killed all of them.
Angor did not like such cruelty. Though he did not develop hatred towards Easley, only less sympathy, more caution.
The wizarding world was even more brutal than he expected.
Time went by. The Redbud passed the Whalebone Sea peacefully and moved into the most dangerous area in rumors—Devil’s Water.
She had not seen Mara and Alan in a long time.