Chapter 296. Old Friends

JACOB

The path was steep, the horses had a hard time climbing, they went slowly.

“It’s slower than I thought,” Fabricio began to look at the horizon, where everything was dwarfed by the distance.

The palace was not so far from where we were now, the distance seemed to lengthen by the stretch of the climb up the hill.

“Don’t despair, the climb is not eternal. Soon we will be on flat ground and we will be able to increase our speed.” I tried to have the necessary optimism.

With the passing of the hours that I spent with Fabricio, I had noticed a rather important detail. The count had a delicate character to deal with, he was hypersensitive to noise, and he was also easily irritated. I also realized that he quickly fell into a negative posture of life. He had that problem and I had to solve it before it became a bigger problem.

“Yes, sure…” he couldn’t continue, because the dry cough invaded him.

The count began to cough hard, clearing his thro