“I want your expertise in hiring the best mercenaries and skilled craftsmen available to assist Professor Kinnock, as secrecy for this project is of the utmost importance.”
Kane thought for a while, sipping on his wine. “I know the perfect man, his name is Jouka, a well-disciplined individual with superior leadership skills with loyal followers who will do as he directs and for the right price, his loyalty can be bought.”
“Good. Secure their services. You and your mercenaries are going to Milorien.”
“Milorien, my lord?” Kane was dumbfounded, but after a few moments, he composed himself and asked the question that Nightburn knew he would ask. “What’s at Milorien?”
“An old military installation that my father and Professor Kinnock secretly constructing, although it’s a …show more content…
When he entered the hall, he noticed that not very many people were present. He, evidently, had missed the big crowd that usually was present at the noonday meal which suited him just fine. Finding his table unoccupied, he sat down to have a servant appear with a platter filled with the lunch time fare and pouring him a glass of Kabus, a light white wine offered only at the lunch meal. His first bite of a spicy vegetable pie interrupted when Sara, Gustav, Ject, and the remaining members of his personal guard, as well as Ace and Valana walked in and asked if it was all right if they joined him. Accepting their company, they quickly sat down with the servant who had previously served him frantically motioning to others in the kitchen to assist her in serving the now large group of officers at the table. Balthazar, away on order business for several weeks and had just returned, joined the group. He was looking ever so forward to devouring his lunch since the meals away from the manor had been less than