• Laith Taher 213

Chapter Thirty

Jarvis returned from his journey feeling sad and angry as he
felt he had failed his father, his brother, and all of the
Prouds.
As he approached the land of the Prouds, a man saw
him and shouted, “Jarvis is back.”
Knights started to gather, along with their leader, to
meet Jarvis. The leader was raging with anger and had been
waiting impatiently, all those days, for his brother to return,
so he could reproach him harshly.
When Jarvis reached them, the angry leader asked,
“Where have you been, Jarvis?”
Then, Reynold asked, “Tell us the good news,
Jarvis. Have you killed the lowlife?”
Many other knights started to raise their voices
asking similar questions.
Jarvis dismounted from Genos. “I broke in their
palace, killed a few of their soldiers, and then captured their
imbecile prince. When I was about to kill him, I was
surrounded by too many soldiers, so I made an agreement
with his father to spare his son’s life in return for my own.”
“God, I wish you killed him,” a knight said.
Everybody started to show regret because most of
them wanted revenge. Ever since they learned of Jarvis’s