47 THE SINISTER TREE 9

When he poked his head out of the trap door, a figure and a flash of steel of a lunging sword aim right the crown prince's face. Fortunately, the sword's tip had stopped a few liamis from Crown Prince Lam face.

"Lam? Is that you?" Emperor Tu surprise, when he realized who's head just came out of the hole on the floor.

Jump out of the hole, Crown Prince Lam quickly seal the trap door shut with magic. Momently, a loud "thump" come from behind the trap door. Looking around, Crown Prince find himself in the village common house, scattered the floor is the dead bodies of the village's elders and some villagers, some Brocade Cloak Guards accompanied Emperor Tu were injured. The doors and windows of the common house are closed shut and blocked with the common house's furniture. Loud thumping kept sounding, as the villagers from the outside hitting the doors trying to get in.

"father, what happening here? Are you alright?" Crown Prince Lam concerned.

"I'm fine, the villagers sudden went berserk and attacked us, forced the Brocade Cloak Guard's hand." Emperor Tu explained "and you? where have you been? You making me worry. Why're you climb out from that hole?"

So Crown Prince Lam retold his strange encounter.

"so Toa and the convoy are here? And he trying to throw you into that strange pond? What is going on? I don't understand anything here." Emperor Tu's mind boggled with the things his son just told