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‘Are we still enemies?’
‘I don’t want to be anyone’s enemy. I just want to save my sister. ’
‘So we have a truce then?’ Goth asked, holding out his enormous hand for Zach to shake.
Zach nodded in agreement and gripping his hand, he said, ‘we have a truce. ’
‘Where are you heading now?’ Goth asked.
‘Then I will come with you,’ Marshal Goth insisted. ‘As you know I’m not too bad in a fight. I might be of service to you. ’
‘No,’ Zach said.
‘No? The road to the Rusty Volcano is a dangerous one. No one has ever returned. ’
‘I appreciate your offer of help, but your people need you more than I do,’ Zach said.
‘It won’t take Throat long to work out what happened here tonight. Then he will hunt me and my people down. Where should I take them?’ Goth asked.
‘Take them to the Snowstorm Mountains,’ William told him. ‘My people are there. You’ll be safe with them. ’
‘I will come with you Norsori,’ Henry the Cathedral Knight roared, swooping around them. ‘My fellow Knights and I will no longer be safe in the Grey-yard. ’
‘And what about me?’ Captain Bom said brushing sand from his overgrown eyebrows.
‘Why, you’re coming with us!’ Neanna beamed. ‘You’ve got my back – remember!’
With an uneasy smile tugging at the corners of his lips, Captain Bom said, ‘I can’t wait to get going. ’
With the key to the box, Zach and his friends began the long and dangerous journey across Endra to the Rusty Volcano. Although to the passing stranger, they looked like a rag-tag group of misfits, all but one of them had a common goal; to save the Queen and her reflection and restore peace to Endra. The other? They wanted something else altogether.