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RANGERS APPRENTICE : HALT’S PERIL, By John Flanagan
After the downfall of Tennyson, the Arulen and Clonmel kingdoms are relieved. Halt, Will, and Horace chase after Tennyson and his buddies to bring him down for good. Will finds O’Malley, a man who greatly supported Tennyson and his fake god, Alseiass. Will tries to bargain, but O'Malley is in no position to talk and tells him that his lips are sealed. Halt, however, forces a little out of O’Malley and then kicks him out to the woods, under the eyes of the Tavernkeeper. Halt’s group leaves to chase after Tennyson, and meet a few people along the way, who Halt and will brush aside with a few arrows. Turns out, they were a gang of hunters, originally from Tennyson’s thieving group, and Will wishes they had not killed them right away. After camping for a little while, Halts group sets off again. But soon after they set off, they are ambushed by two deadly assassins with crossbows. They are shooting poisonous arrows at Will, Halt, and Horace. Halt and Will accidentally shoot at the same person, knocking him down. But that leaves the other man open, who shoots Halt in the arm. It grazes his arm, and Halt cries out in pain. Will shoots the other man down. Afterwards, Halt acts strange, and Will realizes what’s happened. Halt has lost his memory and sense of time. Halt falls off his horse one day, unconscious. Will tries to tend to Halt. But Halt is going to die. Will knows of only one person who can help Halt now. Malkallam the Sorcerer. Will takes off to Macindaw, the place where Malcom the Sorcerer lives. He created the Tale of Malkallam to keep people away from him too much. He is a lively herbologist and a healer who has the skill to heal Halt. WIll returns with Malcom soon after and Malcom treats Halt. Halt, who should have died from the poison, slowly recovers and they continue on, though Halt is still a little bit weak. They find Tennyson in Arulen trying to tell the kingdom that Alseiass is real, but Halt enters and shows that he is not. He dares Alseiass to kill him, but nothing happens. Some people attack halt, but are easily wiped off of Halt’s worry list. The kingdom turns on Tennyson, Tennyson runs away again, but falls on a rock and disappears out of sight. Halt tells them that they will get their gold back eventually, and peace in Arulen is finally restored again.