Chapter 34: Journey

“My Lord, we can’t” Jon replied.

“What do you mean by we can’t? Are you trying to undermine me?” Skylar said as he turned to look at him straight in the eye.

“The spell the witch casted on the forest is meant to be in place for three days, and now she’s dead the spell cannot be reversed” Jon replied.

“Meredith had one job, to free Elaine and give her the illusion that she was escaping, and to bring her back here to me. I planned it to break her will and make her realize that she could never escape my grip” Skylar said sounding crazy.

“My Lord, I’m sorry it didn’t work out that way” Jon said scared that he would become violent as recently he had been behaving very crazy.

“You need to find me a new witch from the temples” Skylar said after a long while of silence.

“We’re trapped here my Lord, there is no point of exit” Jon said trying to explain further when Skylar stopped him.

“Not if you’re riding back south, Meredith cast the spell towards the north and it will only go farther north not south” Skylar explained with a psychotic smile dancing across his lips.

“Even if the path is unclear we will still be able to locate it” Jon replied and Skylar was glad that he remembered that little detail.

“Take a few men and get going to the temple in the east, move as fast as you can I need back here in a day” Skylar said.

“My Lord, we won’t be able to reach the temple in three days, it’s a three day journey” Jon replied trying to make him reconsider the timeline.

“What will you have me do?” Skylar said.

“We wait it out, we wait for the spell to go away on its own” Jon replied but Skylar didn’t reply instead he was quiet for a while with a contemplative look on his face.

“I have a better idea, bring Meredith’s body” he said and fear gripped Jon, he had another crazy plan and this one sounded do