February 29, 2012

Death of a Hero:
Chapter 8:

Halt buried the woman who saved his life behind the home, marking the grave with a stone labeled, "A Brave Mother," as he did not know her name. Instead of leaving Will with the poor townsfolk, Halt decided to take him back to Baron Arald's fief and leave Will at the orphanage. After finishing telling Will the story of how his parents died, Halt started to cry, the same way he had when leaving Will at the orphanage. Except this time, Will was a full-fledged Ranger. Halt did not tell Will that his mother had been murdered because he thought that it would be easier on Will. Also, he did not want Will to blame him for the deaths of both of his parents. Halt then proceeded to take Will to his mother's grave, ending the first portion of The Lost Stories.

The Inkwell and The Dagger

This short story describes what happened to Gilian when Halt and Horace went to Gallica to rescue Will in Book 3: The Icebound Land.


Chapter 1:

Gilian watched Halt and Horace gallop away in their horses to rescue Will. He later met up with Crowley, the Ranger Commandant, to discuss Gilian's next mission. He would track down Foldar, a cold-blooded killer. Because of this, many fake Foldars had sprung up, surviving off of the real one's notorious behavior. Crowley handed over Halt's files on the crimes, such as robberies, that might contain Foldar.

Chapter 2:

There are nine cases that have been unanswered. Of those nine, seven are relatively small crimes that the real Foldar would not have attempted. One of the crimes was committed during the night, the family did not know that a robbery had taken place, and the robbers locked the doors behind them. The real Foldar would have broken in, taken the money, and killed the family for grins and chuckles. That leaves one. A well-armed caravan was robbed by fifteen to twenty trained and armed assassins. All of the drivers were killed, and only a few passengers escaped into the woods. Since Foldar helped Morgarath attempt to overthrow the throne of a kingdom, this crime had Foldar's stamp on it.