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Chapter 99. The Only Road That Mattered Was the One Everyone Warned Me About · Nov 13, 2026

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51 Chapter 51. My Poker Face Has Been Reviewed by a Fifteen-Year Expert, and It Failed 2026-11-13
52 Chapter 52. A Stone Lifted Off My Chest by the Person Who Had the Right to Hold It 2026-11-13
53 Chapter 53. Promoted Into Exile: A Parade Invitation I Would Like to Decline 2026-11-13
54 Chapter 54. The Kingdom Has Fine Print Too, and I Used to Sign Those for a Living 2026-11-13
55 Chapter 55. Malicious Compliance, Now with a Sponsor and a Giant Sword 2026-11-13
56 Chapter 56. A Crayon Drawing Slid Between the Bars 2026-11-13
57 Chapter 57. The Man Who Held Up the Beam Before Remembering Who He Was 2026-11-13
58 Chapter 58. A Promise I Didn’t Know How to Keep, Said So Calmly I Almost Believed It 2026-11-13
59 Chapter 59. Outrun by My Own Escort’s Rabbit While Riding a Mare Named Biscuit 2026-11-13
60 Chapter 60. A Bandage Unwound from the Outside In, and a Kiss Rationed by Duty 2026-11-13
61 Chapter 61. A Loose Stone Ended My Career as a Silent Eavesdropper 2026-11-13
62 Chapter 62. A Hand Pulled Her Up from the Grass, and Nobody Mentioned the Tears 2026-11-13
63 Chapter 63. The Polite Thing to Do When Followed Is To Pretend That You Aren’t 2026-11-13
64 Chapter 64. Two of the Finest Knights in the Kingdom Giggled Like Schoolgirls in a Ditch 2026-11-13
65 Chapter 65. A Splash of Water on My Boot Was the Best Thing That Happened All Morning 2026-11-13
66 Chapter 66. I’m Not Saving the Walls, Just Whoever Happens to Live Behind Them 2026-11-13
67 Chapter 67. The Cliff I Stared At All Night Was Exactly Where He Was Looking Back 2026-11-13
68 Chapter 68. A Shot Tuned to the Scent of a Crystal That Was Already Gone 2026-11-13
69 Chapter 69. Not an Elegant Speech, but It Got Everyone Moving 2026-11-13
70 Chapter 70. I Watched Two Women Hold Their Posts, and Forgot I Was in a War 2026-11-13
71 Chapter 71. A Brass Fork Between the Shoulder Blades Was the Puppeteer’s Whole Trick 2026-11-13
72 Chapter 72. The Look She Wore Was the One I Knew: A Girl Watching the Worst Thing Happen 2026-11-13
73 Chapter 73. A Polite Man Who Swallowed My Magic Like It Was Nothing 2026-11-13
74 Chapter 74. If the Alarm Rings When I Make a Plan, Stop Making Plans Where It Can Hear 2026-11-13
75 Chapter 75. Strongest Knight in the World, with Two Women Standing Beside Him 2026-11-13
76 Chapter 76. Not Being the Strongest, but Being Part of Something That Is 2026-11-13
77 Chapter 77. The Place We’ve Been Hunting Was Under His Village the Whole Time 2026-11-13
78 Chapter 78. Too Calm to Be Innocent 2026-11-13
79 Chapter 79. The Most Romantic Burglary of My Life Happened Inside a Crate Full of Straw 2026-11-13
80 Chapter 80. A Torn Page Wedged Between Shelves: Bram Never Went to See His Daughter 2026-11-13
81 Chapter 81. The Man Who Carried Her Off a Wall Might Have Signed the Order Against Her 2026-11-13
82 Chapter 82. Honest Might Be the Most Dangerous Thing That Ever Happened to Me 2026-11-13
83 Chapter 83. Nothing Is Owed, Everything Is Chosen. And Yes... I Want To Make Love! 2026-11-13
84 Chapter 84. The Threesome That I Always Dreamed Off... It’s Finally Happening** 2026-11-13
85 Chapter 85. Going All Rough On Them Both! To The Point It Leaves Red Marks!** 2026-11-13
86 Chapter 86. Alicia Was The First One To Feel It, But Then Came Laura Who Stole It** 2026-11-13
87 Chapter 87. Getting Sandwiched By My Two Competitive Girlfriends... It’s The Best!** 2026-11-13
88 Chapter 88. Alicia Was The First One To Get Thrusted While Laura Waited And Kissed Me** 2026-11-13
89 Chapter 89. Alicia Finally Getting Filled, And Now... It’s Laura’s Turn!** 2026-11-13
90 Chapter 90. Even After Laura Was Full Inside... They Wanted Me For More!** 2026-11-13
91 Chapter 91. Hours and Hours of Full Unadulterated Pleasure!** 2026-11-13
92 Chapter 92. They Wanted To Get Pregnant By Me... And I’ll Gladly Marry Them!** 2026-11-13
93 Chapter 93. For Once, My Body Woke Up Without Filing a Complaint (Threesome Was Great) 2026-11-13
94 Chapter 94. The Plan I Never Wrote Down Was Already in Their Hands** 2026-11-13
95 Chapter 95. Alicia Teaching Laura How To Make Me Feel Good With Her Mouth** 2026-11-13
96 Chapter 96. Two Of My Future Wife Are Supportive Towards Each Other** 2026-11-13
97 Chapter 97. A Pack of Dogs Sharing One Bed, According to a Valkyrie 2026-11-13
98 Chapter 98. A Knight of the Lapisfield Name Will Not Be Defeated by a Morning 2026-11-13
99 Chapter 99. The Only Road That Mattered Was the One Everyone Warned Me About 2026-11-13
100 Chapter 100. You Don’t Answer a Man’s Good Memories With Something Clever 2026-11-13

Chapter 99: 99. The Only Road That Mattered Was the One Everyone Warned Me About

I raised the glass to my eye and swept it along the line. Crates were stacked high in the wagons, six and eight to a load, with straw packed around them and ropes holding them down.

I counted the lids. And I counted the seals.

The red seal on each, with its tiny toothed rim, was visible even at this distance.

’Twelve wagons,’ I thought. ’Maybe a hundred crates.’

’That’s a lot of crystals... A lot more than a single shipment.’

The panel opened in my vision with a soft chime.

[WARNING: RESONANCE SIGNATURE DETECTED.]

[Source: Large.]

[Distance: Approaching.]

’Approaching?’ I thought. ’They’re not coming at us... it’s more like... They’re leaving.’

But the panel hadn’t said they were.

It said the signature was approaching. I turned the glass to the wagons, then to the knights, then to the road ahead of the convoy.

A faint, trembling blue shimmer hung over the whole column, so faint that I’d have missed it if I hadn’t been looking for it.

It hung over the crates like heat over a summer road.

’It’s the crystals,’ I thought. ’They’re humming... All of them... Together.’

I felt a coldness crawl along my spine. Individually, a crystal was a tool.

But a hundred of them, in sync, wasn’t an energy source. It was a resonance, and a resonance meant a purpose.

They weren’t being hauled off to be sold or stored. They were being brought to do something, and whatever it was, it was big enough to make the air shimmer from a mile away.

”That road,” said a weak, hoarse voice behind us.

I turned.

Garrick had been carried to the top of the ridge on a stretcher by Pike and Wynn, and they’d propped him up against a rock with a blanket around his shoulders.

His face was gaunt and gray in the dusk. He had the drawing clutched against his chest, and his eyes were fixed on the road, on the long line of wagons winding away toward the northeast hills.

”That road ends at my village,” he said.

Nobody answered.

The wind rose, and the thorn bushes rattled.

Far away, the lead wagon rounded a bend and began to climb a long, low ridge, and the dust of its passage hung like a pale plume against the sunset.

Eveline had opened her notebook. She was counting the wagons under her breath, her pencil moving in short, quick strokes, and her whisper carried across the rock.

”Twelve... Twelve wagons... Plus a lead rider... Plus thirty-one guards... Thirty-two... No, thirty-one.” She frowned. ”I’ll check again.”

Laura had unfolded her map and was marking the convoy’s heading with a stub of charcoal, drawing a dark arrow across the hills.

Alicia stood with her arms folded, staring at the tail of the column. When she felt my gaze, she turned her head and gave me a long, level look.

It wasn’t a question.

It was a Well?

Sharon’s hand tightened on her sword.

I stared at the road for a long time, and I felt the weight of it settle over me. We couldn’t go back to Elarion.

We couldn’t wait for a Council that had stamped its seal on the crates. We couldn’t trust a Hallis who was five days away and fighting a war on his own wall.

The orders we’d been given led to the capital and a ceremonial parade, and the people who’d written them wanted us there.

But the road in front of us, the one that wound up into the northeast hills behind a column of glowing crystals, led somewhere else entirely.

It was a trap, probably... It was almost certainly a trap.

But it was the only road that mattered.

’So much for the escort mission,’ I thought.

”Pack up,” I said.

Everyone turned.

”We’re following that convoy.”

A heartbeat passed.

Then Sharon grinned, a slow, dangerous, delighted grin, and Alicia let out a breath that was almost a laugh.

Laura nodded once, brisk and unsurprised. Eveline snapped her notebook shut with a bright clap.

I looked at the dust hanging in the red sky, and I added, quietly, in the privacy of my own head:

’We were never going to the capital.’

...

We left the chapel an hour after dark, and nobody said a word about how stupid it was.

I think that was the part that worried me most.

Back in Elarion, any plan with the words ”follow the convoy” and ”no backup” in it would have been stabbed down by at least three people, and I’d have been one of them.

Out here, with the dust of twelve wagons still hanging in my head like a bad smell, everyone just started packing.

Alicia rolled bedrolls with the speed of someone who had stopped asking questions.

Laura counted arrows and refused to explain why she needed forty.

Sharon sharpened her sword with one hand, because her right shoulder still wouldn’t lift past her ribs, and she swore at the whetstone every time it slipped.

The split took about five minutes, because Alicia had already worked it out on the back of her map.

”Ferris, Oswin, and Pike stay,” she said. ”There’s a dry gully behind the chapel with a rock overhang, and the wagon fits inside it if we take the wheels off the axle bed.”

”You keep the spare horses, you keep the road behind us open, and if nobody comes back in ten days, you ride to Elarion and give Hallis everything in Laura’s second notebook.”

”Ten days?” Ferris said from his bedroll.

He had one leg propped on a saddlebag and the expression of a man being left out of a party. ”I’ll be bored out of my mind.”

”You’ve got a bad leg and a worse sense of humor,” said Alicia. ”You’ll manage.”

”That’s a harsh thing to say to a wounded man.”

”It’s a kind thing to say to a wounded man who’s going to live.”

Oswin looked like he’d been told he had to stay behind at his own birthday. He opened his mouth to argue, caught Sharon’s eye, and closed it again with great dignity.

Pike simply nodded and bit into an apple. I swear that man would have nodded the same way if she’d told him the world was ending.

Holt, Wynn, and Dessa would come with us.

They were the best the Order had given us, as far as I could tell, and none of them had asked to be left behind.

Holt checked the straps on his shield, then checked them again.

Wynn tied her shaved head up in a gray cloth and said nothing, which was how she said most things.

Dessa had a short sword on each hip and was grinning like a girl on her way to a fair.

Then there was Garrick.

He stood at the edge of the firelight on a crutch that Pike had whittled for him, wrapped in a blanket that had been somebody’s cloak, with the iron cuffs still locked around his wrists.

He’d gotten some color back, but his skin still had a waxy look, and the place on his chest where the bolt had gone in was a lumpy shape under his shirt.

I could see him thinking about the chain. I could see him working out, very quietly, how much of a burden a man in shackles would be on a night march through broken country.

Sharon sheathed her sword and walked over, and for a moment I thought she was going to say something cruel.

”Hold out your hands,” she said.

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