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Narcissus has Sapphire, Ichi, and the black haired girl elf tied up in chairs. She
also makes the wizard Colin cast a spell on Dao and Willow, casting two blond naked
love cupids with arrows to fire at them. Bartlebee takes them to the Queen. They
will not be able to tell her what happened. Greenhaven: a long haired elf boy takes
Windblade Greensleeve to see King Bran, who is getting his bath by servants. Windblade
is wearing a revealing costume (as is everyone in this series). It consists mostly
of straps and wraps and a skimpy thong. Bran calls Windblade his old friend and tells
him it is good to see him after ages. Windy says, "Thank you, King Bran."
Bran asks Windy if he is still mad at him, after all he has on a long sad face. Bran
asks Windy to contact Ichi. Windy will do it but it will be dangerous. Windy sits
in a room with candles with Bran and two others, a dark hair and a blond. He tries
to contact Ichi. Three old hags seem to come through and distract the elves. Windy
must not break contact with Ichi. In the limbo, Windy's eyes turn white. Ichi is
locked in a body cage, asking for help. A large faced human with a dripping nose
tells Windy that Ichi is his. Windy comes back. Bran tells the guards, free from
the spell, at Windy's arrival, to kill the vile hags. They do. Ichi is a captive
of a great warlock. Colin asks Sapphire not to kill him if he sets her free. She
calls him a traitor. He tells her he has to or he would have been killed. He is a
self admitted coward. He has their things and all can escape. Narcissus and her master,
a warlock named Plaguene want the war between humans and elves. The Queen knows nothing
of this. She is a puppet. Sapphire thinks this time Colin is right: they must warn
the elf people. They leave Willow and Dao to their fates. When Bartlebee and a page
boy bring Dao and Willow to the Queen, she asks about the page boy, too. Bartlebee
tells her the page boy is his. The page boy thought it was a lie but Bartlebee tells
him it isn't. Galen and a buck toothed squire guard boy and another human boy are
in the path of Sapphire's group. She says, "Galen, I'm going to enjoy sticking
you." Squires with Galen draw bows. They need no dungeon guards, Galen demonstrates
by lowering a cage door, locking even the two squires behind it. The black haired
girl is Euki. A giant worm thing which is really phallic grabs up one squire and
starts to undress him and kill him. Turo and Sapphire fight it with swords. It grabs
one elf and tosses him down a chute. Turo gets taken and tells her to leave him and
go. Sapphire won't leave him. The remaining Squire tells her about the torch. She
burns the creature which lets Turo go. They run. Sapphire tells someone to bind up
that Squire, a blond when his hood is removed. Colin and Euki find a tunnel out to
a moat. Once free, Sapphire tells them they have a war to stop. The Squire seems
excited about being tied up by Turo. |