Ascension to the Lost Throne novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Hostage
Jude walked down the North Pass road at dawn with the ring on his hand and the sword left behind.
The tall rider had wanted to follow with twenty riders, and Jude had told him to wait on the ridge trail above the narrows.
"Corwin's lookouts will see anything that moves on this road, and she pays for it," he had said.
"Stay where they can't see you."
The fog lay in the pass.
At the southern mouth, where the road widened, the Black Banner had made a camp overnight.
Trucks stood nose to tail across the ditch, and a fuel tanker squatted behind them with a hose coiled on its back.
Tents ran up the slope under the ridge, and men with rifles stood on the truck beds watching him come.
They did not shoot.
They parted for him the way the men at the quarry had.
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