章 114: It’s Just Good Manners

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Henry missed Nyx. 

It was the morning after the ones who had locked him up in a cage camped by a fire and they seemed to be preparing to get moving again. 

As Henry crossed his legs and tried to find some iota of serenity in his current situation, Nyx kept coming back to mind. He wondered where she was. Had she run away before Maude Aleric arrived at the Black Manor? Or had she fought to stop him from getting carted away?

Henry remembered how Maude Aleric had reacted to Nyx being capable of Magic and found himself nursing the thought that the Lord of the Black Manor could have captured her as well. 

'I mean, if he thought to sell me, who knows if he thought to do the same to her.' Henry thought sullenly. 

He tried reaching out to her through their telepathic connection but he received no response.

'Likely too far away,' he realized as he let out a sigh and then reached out to the System to call forth his horse's Status screen;