Silence and Shadow by Erin Beaty EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Erin Beaty
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I know the moment something is wrong.
Simon’s hand grips mine with a sudden intensity, but it’s not a squeeze
for my attention or an expression of affection. It’s urgent with an edge of
fear.
His movements haven’t indicated we need to flee, though, which means I
shouldn’t react. We’re standing off to the side of an open area where several
streets intersect, watching a group of children perform a traditional dance,
their ribbons on the ends of sticks more or less in sync with the festival
music and each other. Not one child is over eight years old, so they must
have practiced several weeks for this amount of coordination.
Simon isn’t looking at me or the colorful celebration, however. His eyes
are narrowed at something across the square.
Trying not to be obvious, I lean into his side, close enough to feel the
hum of magick coming from the bloodstones in his pocket. Their focused
energy makes my skin numb, so he usually carries them for me. “What is
it?”
“That man.” Simon replies in a much lower voice, but we’re standing in
the shadow of a three-story building so I can hear him clearly.
I follow his line of sight over the crowd. With the Solstice festival
celebrating the longest and holiest day of the year, outsiders are common as
sparrows, which works both to our advantage and disadvantage. We’d
arrived on the island of Brinsulli several days ago, then traveled to the
capital city of Londunium on foot. The journey to the coast of Gallia from
Collis was much faster—traveling at night on horses we then sold to buy
passage across the Narrow Sea. It’s not likely any word about Simon as a
fugitive has reached Brinsulli, let alone Londunium, in those three weeks,
especially as he’s believed to be dead, but there’s always a chance he’ll be
recognized. His unusual eyes—light blue with a wedge of brown in the left
—are impossible to hide.
“The one in the gray tunic and black cap,” Simon whispers.
I find the man. His blond hair hangs in greasy strings over his forehead,
and his sallow skin glistens with a sheen of sweat. Something has him
agitated, and he rubs his hands in a washing motion almost compulsively. I
have to speak much louder for Simon to hear me, so I stand on my toes to
put my mouth closer to his ear as I pretend to watch the dance again. “Has
he been staring at you?”
“No. He keeps looking around the crowd. Stopped on you twice.”
That doesn’t make any sense. “How is that a problem?”
“Because he’s searching for a target. Someone easy and worth the effort.”
Simon pauses. “Third look. He thinks you have potential, but you’re fine as
long as you’re with me.”
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