Valkyrie Black

Chapter 118: Delayed Karma

Late that afternoon, Reilynn accompanied Valkyrie into town. Val had thought about trying to go on her own, but realized the General and his wife would protest and raise an issue. She was stuck between two worlds. One where she was an underworld queen of the sea, Durres, and now Caradon guilds and another world entirely where she was thought to be a helpless young woman whose outings could damage her chances of a marriage proposal.

The notion made her sick to think about. Most of the men she had met thus far had died at the end of her blade or deserved to die in the near future.

She thought of Alexa and considered sending for her to join them, but thought her friend likely wanted time away from her for now. The thought stunk in ways she had not expected.

Morgessa had trained them both to be ruthless and to kill efficiently. Most of her training had been focused on Scath, but from time to time she had an especially nasty brute who had been sentenced to death by the Surian council of El