Vallus had been avoiding seeing Artemis all week. It had been easy because Aysun had been swamped with lots of activities geared towards protecting its citizens. He was still bent on knowing the content of the letter before giving it to Artemis. Today was his last chance at doing that. Maha was to visit the palace soon and if she and Artemis got talking it would be discovered that he had held onto something he should have given Artemis.
He reached the seamstress shop where he had killed the rogue and felt a surge of pride pass through him. Thankfully that same day he had been used as bait to kill the regenerated rogue and so most of Aysun knew him as a hero. He had made sure the rumor spread that he had killed a rogue.
As he stood outside the seamstress shop contemplating how to approach the witch who owned the shop, he remembered with bitterness how she had left him outside to die. It was fortunate he had made it alive and today he was going to exact his revenge.
