Chapter 94

Jay grinned.

As Naomi reached for the final scroll, a voice caught his attention.

“Well, well, well,” a soldier said from the doorway. “What do we have here?”

Naomi hissed, and Naomi turned toward the soldier. Naomi blinked several times and shook his head. He saw a group of soldiers soldier in the doorway, but Jay got there first. The soldier stumbled backward and screamed as Jay’s fingernails dug into his temples.

Naomi slipped past them and headed for the back door of the banquet hall.

“Wait, ssson!” Jay called out, but Naomi didn't bother to turn back. His brothers might need him. As he ran, he slid the last scroll along the small of his back up under his robe, beneath his sash. That was still the most secure place for it if he had to fight.

Naomi arrived at the banquet hall's rear door and stopped in his tracks. Something didn't look right. He scanned the area in the dim moonlight and realized what it was. The ground was perfectly smooth. Too smooth. There wasn't a single f