Chapter 264: Checkmate

Outside Moon City! In the hush of a forest, the Pentos Sect's party combed through the undergrowth again and again, hunting for any trace Benson Santee had left behind. Without anyone noticing, the sky brightened. Dawn broke through the clouds in the east, spilling over the treetops and chasing the chill from the air. "Sect Master, we searched everywhere. There's no sign of Benson Santee…" Stefan Yeates, Samson Zerbe, Malachi Zeeland, Naomi Lashbrook, and the rest of the sect's upper ranks,...