Jackal Among Snakes
Chapter 172
“There’s something you should know,” Anneliese told Argrave.
Argrave set aside his duster, preparing to finally head to sleep. “Something wrong?”
“I believe Elaine is cooperating with the Bat, too. She felt guilty when you mentioned that name, as though she had informed on you and regretted it,” she disclosed seriously. “Although… the last bit is only my personal conclusion. I cannot say with certainty.”
Argrave frowned. “Not entirely unexpected… but good to know,” Argrave nodded. “I’ll be sure to watch my tongue.”
“You always do,” she noted, finally relaxing now that she’d conveyed what she had wanted to.
“Another thing,” Argrave pointed at her. “I need your help with something.”
Anneliese raised a brow. “Magic advice?”
“Durran advice,” Argrave said bitterly, then moved to sit on the bed, removing his shoes.
“Oh,” she took off her own duster, casting it atop his.
“The Margrave had no intent to release us,” Argrave stated plainly. “From what I remember of the conversation… he had plans for me. He wanted to introduce me to his vassals. That meant we’d be forced to stay, and with the importance of ending the spread of the plague, that’s simply not an option. This was a good outcome,” he reflected.
“But I don’t care if everything worked out—him going off on his own like that, it could cause problems in the future. It can’t happen again. At the same time…” Argrave shook his head, leaving a question unspoken.
Anneliese slowly shook her head, then sat down beside Argrave. “I think that is reasonable,” she reassured him.
“He needs to be reined in,” Argrave nodded decisively now that Anneliese agreed with him. He trusted her opinion more than his own. “I have to nip this in the bud, especially when dealing with that holy fool Orion. He could get us all killed. I can’t abide him continually doing things like this. If I can’t predict him, he might not be welcome. Durran’s a resourceful bastard—crazy, but smart. He’s got brains, balls—if he’d fucking be straight with me, I could use all that,” he said quickly, frustrated with the situation.
Anneliese shrugged. “Though I loathe to admit it… I do not know where to begin.”
how,” Argrave turned to her. “He doesn’t respect me. That’s the issue. He thinks more of his own opinion than mine—maybe there’s good reason
Anneliese shook her head.
even if that is the case, that’s not important.” Argrave continued. “With his personality, we’ve got a recipe for disaster brewing on the horizon. I have to show him that there are consequences for doing things like that—have to show him what I say has weight. He won’t respond to punishment. That
two people who might help you with that—Elaine and Rivien. Perhaps not entirely honest, staging consequences for his actions… but
his gaze grew distant. “I don’t know… that seems like something Titus would do. I want him as an ally and confidant,
no?”
than what I had before. This is why I ask you,” he pointed out, wrapping one of his arms around her. She smiled lightly. “Another thing,” Argrave continued. “I want you to stay inside until I get the things that’ll help you resist disease
him. “We had this
it would mean a great deal to
leaned forward and gave him a
you feel any better, there’s something I want you to do. Talk to Durran, find
you have already made a plan,”
to keep the option in mind. Feels a bit dirty, frankly, and it might cost
come to that,”
Durran had ever been his favorite character, largely for his reckless
someone like that could fit into the party he’d built thus
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enemy was not as immediate a task as he suspected it might
the people just outside the gates, urging them to settle things amicably. He ate only bread and soup before them.
able to get through their outrage, eventually, his endurance outlasted their own and they could shout no longer. Like that, he was able to engage in dialogue with the revolt. He spoke to many people of their misgivings with the Duke, patiently listened to the
from them, just beyond the gate. He
every man would be treated fairly under the law. He promised that the people who had been wronged would be given justice—promised
idea into their head ever so slowly and deliberately so that soon enough, the people themselves were suggesting it
friends among the would-be rebels, and they all greeted him without hostility. He could not say it was warm—their tempers could not be calmed so quickly, he knew—but he
Duke’s wife pressured Duke Marauch into remaining within the castle, Elias used his own men to organize proper treatment for all of the plague-ridden within Elbraille. At times he got his hands dirty,
to think that he could conquer it within the day—even still, by restoring
within the city have faltered,” an old man explained to Elias, who stood in a tent with the plagued. Helmuth stood just beside him, guarding him ever-diligently. His purple eyes swirled like
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