Chapter 86: Chapter 86After an early dinner, Zayne and Finn headed back to their camp but first made a stop at the town guards.

    "This is it? It looks so shabby. Maybe I am just judging everything because I like to think nowhere is better than home but it is shabby, isn’t it?" Finn asked.

    It was his first time seeing where the town guards gathered and he wasn’t impressed.

    "This town is said to be one on the poorer side with not too many nobles so it is expected that there isn’t much care about how this place looks. I don’t have any hope," Zayne said, already annoyed and he was not yet inside.

    Finn stayed close behind Zayne as they already gathered attention from the guards outside and the townsfolk walking by.

    There had been a standoff the day they arrived in this town as the guards received late notice that Zayne and his soldiers were to come here before heading to the palace.

    "You there, stop!" A guard ordered the two. "You are not welcome here. What gives you the right to walk in here as you like?"

    Zayne stopped and looked down at the sword pointed at him. It would have been better to point a gun at him. "Careful with that before you hurt yourself. Is this not where you are to come to ask questions concerning the town?"

    "It is where people of this kingdom come to ask for help."

    "Then I am in the right place," Zayne said, carefully moving the sword to have it pointed elsewhere. The man holding the sword gave away that he was scared thanks to his trembling hand. "Where am I to go about missing people?"

    "Anything you have to ask concerning this town must be brought up to me."

    Zayne watched as a slightly plump man got up from behind a desk and walked over to him. It was evident how little these town guards moved around since they were able to get so big and sluggish. "This is our first time meeting yet you look annoyed. Did I disturb your dinner?"

    Kurt, the captain of the guards for this town, muttered something under his breath. He wasn’t happy to see two foreigners standing there as it meant trouble. "We have met before. I am the one who stopped you from getting off your ship. That wasn’t too long ago."

    "It only means you weren’t too memorable. Do not frown as that is a good thing. It means you didn’t annoy me. I have not come here to pick a fight with you. I need to check your list of missing people," said Zayne.

    Zayne placed his hands behind his back so the guards could be less on edge but that didn’t help.

    "List of missing people?" Kurt laughed, looking around the room as he did so. He lifted his pants so it sat well around his waist instead of hanging low as he had them before when he ate. "Someone bring him the list of missing people."

    "I don’t see why a couple of foreigners would need a list of missing people from our land but I will entertain you. I hope you have not caused trouble during your short stay here. If you had something to do with anyone going missing-"

    "I took someone and then came here to see who it is that I took? What part of that makes sense to you?" Zayne asked, wanting the man before to sit back down since he wasn’t of any use.

    Kurt raised his hand to stop one of his guards from getting up. "Forgive me since I have forgotten your name but I must remind you that you are not in your homeland. You are in my town," he poked Zayne’s chest. "You will watch how you speak."

    Kurt would not have these soldiers come to his town and treat him as they pleased. He was the one in control here not the magistrate and certainly not these bastards. "Why the hell are you smiling? Do you take my words for a joke?"

    "You are in luck that I am trying not to give someone the impression that I go around cutting off fingers. Please help me by keeping your fingers away from me," Zayne requested.

    Kurt stared at Zayne confused by everything that was said. His response was interrupted by a large stack of papers being placed on a table. He smiled as he got to watch the two visitors see the list they came for. "Here is the list."

    Zayne glanced at the stack of papers which filled the area with dust and released an awful smell, indicating that these papers weren’t properly put away. It was no different to how Graham treated the slave papers. "Do you not care about the people who go missing in your town?"

    "Of course, I care. We look around a day or two for anyone said to be missing but then after that, we have to close the case. There are only a few here and if we can’t find that person in a day, there’s no point in looking any further. They’re either dead or they show up-"

    "Or become slaves,’ Zayne finished. "Because you give up so easily they become slaves and you continue to do nothing as someone has papers to show that they own the missing person."

    "The slave business is a tricky one. There’s no use in getting involved in it with a town like this and you are not to get involved as it doesn’t concern you. You are welcome to look around to find what you came for but should you try taking someone from the wrong person, you will never leave this land," said Kurt.

    Should they have been at home Zayne would have struck Kurt for being laid back when innocent people were being taken. Money had to play a big part in why the guards didn’t care about the slave business. That and they were afraid of whoever had a bigger hand in the business.

    To get this over with, Zayne went to the stack of papers so he could quickly go through it for Rose’s name.

    ’Oh, I hope you have all night as that was a small part of the list. We have a room full of papers from other towns as well. Would you like a chair?" Kurt asked, grinning ear to ear as he had won this round. Why did they think it would be so easy to come in here and get what they need?

    Zayne looked to the right at the open door of a messy room filled with papers. He didn’t have time to go through all of them. "You’re making it quite easy for me to decide what I want to do with this kingdom. When I return, I am coming to you first. Take good care of your head until that time. We’re leaving," he told Finn. Sёar?h the N?vel(F)ire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    Zayne turned around to leave before he could do something that would need the rest of his ships coming to shore now.

    Kurt’s face turned red with anger. He pointed at Zayne, wanting to stop him and throw him in a cell but knew he would anger the king. "Don’t let those blue-eyed bastards back in here again!" He yelled.