Now ordinary folk had been joining the Cult for various reasons
namely to get away from backbreaking 16 hour days harvesting turnips ,half of which
King Adams men would take away in taxes anyways.
Then that foreign girl named Emily had turned into a male dragon
and left a lot of dead Cult members in his wake not to mention
a lot of burn victims.
Bubbles,who was the Patron of the Cult
shoo'd away boring Oliver after a while
and got down to the business of rebuilding his
pet project
the Cult.
The Cait Sith was in a offworld war to replace the deposed
King and Queen of the Cait Sith
Thomas
and
Thomasina
and the Cult had been Bubbles instrument to get
him put on the Throne.
However membership was down
membership dues were slowly coming in and Bubbles
could see that between a male dragon incinerating Cult members
and King Adam feeding suspected Cultists to his pet lions
the Cult was due for a makeover.
And so when the Second in Command of the Cult
Bubbles supposed human owner
slipped into Bubbles private chamber
the Cait Sith
and the human examined the latest disasters.
There was that group of common criminals who had taken over the Kingdom of
Valeria
supposedly members of the Cult
there was Sol
who was a bona fide member of the Cult
who was probably on the rack in a dungeon being
questioned by Luka the dragon rider.
If Sol was tortured enough
it was only a matter of time before he confessed that
the Master of the Cult
was the Scholar
which would eventually lead to the
finger pointing at Bubbles
Bubbles hopped onto the shelf behind which he kept various
highly potent potions and poisons
he jkept
for the use of the Cult.
He swatted at a string and with a click
the secret panel slid open