Celenk by Honey Phillips EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Honey Phillips
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Lottie ducked around a fast-talking street vendor and slipped between
two market stalls, almost colliding with a floating tray offering
samples from a nearby bakery to bypassers. She rolled her eyes and
wiggled past it. Although, she was willing to bet that most of the samples
would be consumed by the beggars and pickpockets that frequented the
market, it wasn’t any of her business – and they probably needed the food
more than the colorful assortment of local residents, domestic servants, and
crew members from the nearby spaceport who thronged the area.
A bell began to chime sonorously from the administrative building at one
end of the market, an old-fashioned contrast to the large digital time display,
and she swore under her breath as she tried to move even faster. She
couldn’t afford to be late for her waitress job again. The tavern owner,
Grisham, had already threatened to fire her the last time she was tardy. It
wasn’t that she ever intended to be late – she prided herself on being a
responsible person – but things always seemed to happen at the worst
possible time.
The last time she’d been late it was because her neighbor Caralt had begged
her to run and pick up a prescription for her sick daughter. This time it had
been a tiny creature mewling pitifully in the alley next to her rundown
apartment building. She’d finally located the fluffy ball of fur and found
that its leg had been trapped in some debris. She had no idea what type of
animal it was – probably an escapee from one of the spaceships – but she
couldn’t leave it there. Once it calmed down enough for her to free its leg, it
clung to her so tightly she thought she would have to carry it with her all
day.
Instead, she snuck it back to her rooms, thankfully avoiding her landlady in
the process – Mrs. Harper would not have approved. As she carried it
upstairs, it kept trying to chew on her long brown braid, so she pulled out
some of the leftovers she’d brought home. As it devoured everything she
put down, she made a quick bed of towels, put down a bowl of water, and
pushed a few boxes across the entrance to the tiny kitchen area. Hopefully it
wouldn’t destroy anything before she could get home and figure out what to
do with it.
The second bell chimed and her heart pounded anxiously as she wove
around yet another food stall and turned down the street leading to the
tavern. The bustle of the surrounding market faded into insignificance,
drowned out by the thought of Grisham’s scowling face, but it came rushing
back when a group of three men in faded uniforms ambled up the street
towards her. She came to a jolting halt to keep from crashing into them,
only to realize with a sinking feeling in her stomach that they were
spaceport guards.
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