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- Author: Jenna Jarvis
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However foreign the place she might be visiting, there was always
something familiar about markets, Litz decided as she moved farther into
the narrow bustling streets of Malya’s inner-city walls. Viewing Jeenobi’s
capital from the cramped and dusty streets that clutched the edges of the
blue palace walls made it seem like a place unable to decide where, or what,
it was. The people didn’t look proud of the streets they walked, either. If
they looked up, it was suspicion, not welcome, that lingered in their eyes.
And that’s not just your paranoia? A familiar voice prodded in her head.
She rolled her eyes and pulled her head shawl a little tighter around her
face. No, that’s what some would call a soldier’s instincts. I look too
foreign. I’m a head taller than most of the men here.
Surely, that’s helping soothe your soldier’s paranoia.
I thought you were supposed to be asleep.
I thought you were supposed to be exploring, her dragon, Loren,
observed. Somewhere, Litz could feel the cut of a sharp internal smile at her
expense. You’ve barely made it out of the palace walls.
Did you see the maze they surround that place with? Litz bit back. It
took me almost an hour to make it out of there.
Which had only been after a friendly guard had taken pity on her, she
admitted to herself, hoping that Loren wasn’t able to catch that. As Loren’s
rider for fifteen years—over half her life—Litz had gotten a lot of practice
in keeping her mind disciplined.
Congratulations on your soldier’s instincts. You got lost in a garden.
But Loren had gotten equally adept at digging around in it. Dragons tended
to struggle with the concept of privacy.
“Fresh fish, fresh fish caught today!”
“A bargain just for today, just for you—”
“…should take this necklace to ward off the sand terrors, for your pretty
neck…”
Litz smiled politely and kept walking, proud that she could understand
most of what she was hearing. Though the Aelshian and Jeenobian
languages shared a common linguistic root and were largely
interchangeable, the dialects and accents sounded so unfamiliar that
walking through a noisy place made it hard to distinguish individual words.
As her mother had once explained it, most Jeenobian accents sounded “like
someone speaking with their mouth full.”
Since most of Litz’s experience in listening to Jeenobian words and
voices was on battlefields, it made it difficult not to flinch when the market
sellers shouted too close to her ears. Only a short year ago, the thought of
walking through the main streets of a Jeenobian town for any reason other
than a reconnaissance mission would have seemed ridiculous. But here she
was, flown over as an ambassador—
Well. Technically, you are spying.
Yes, but only in the palace, where they expect that of me. Out here I’m
just…nosing.
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