"We heard that Celina was bringing her court to claim Silverna, so Esmeralda rallied up knights and marched through Illius to aid prince Julius." The slave whimpered, his leg throbbing as he continued, "For some reason, they refused her passage through Lyioun."
The slave rambled back and forth after that, but Augustus had little of them. He could tell truth from lie, and he'd heard one thing that was enough for him, 'Esmeralda refused passage through Lyioun, their own territory? If I remember correctly, this means that—'
"They were sightings of a massive red dragon flying all over Lyioun! The people there thought hell had sent its emissary to slaughter them, so they locked up their borders." The slave rapped both the one he knew and the one he did not know, "The knights got scared."
The atmosphere shifted at that point, and Augustus thought back to Valentine and her words during their first encounter in this world, and he blurted out unconsciously, "Fuck."
