Chapter 23

Abigail

One second, I was fixing my boot. The next, I was being carried off by a troll who was foolishly covering my mouth with its bare hand. I bit it hard, causing the troll to yelp and move its hand.

“Help! I’m up, mmmff,” the troll covered my mouth again, this time with a glove blocking my teeth. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Cat struggling in the arms of another troll. I heard magic being fired, and knew that Aryk and Grayson were fighting the others.

They didn’t take us far before Cat and I were thrown into a cart with several other humans who were tied up. A troll got in as the cart started moving and tied us up, too.

“A good haul today,” the troll that had tied us up yelled to the one driving the cart.

“Yeah, we got a good batch. They all look healthy, too.” The two trolls talked about us like we were fish they had just caught in the river.

The trip to the fortress was only a few hours by cart. It was mid-afternoon when we arrived and were unloaded like cattle in