The Changeling and the Dragon by Mallory Dunlin EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Running
My Harms shook as I clung to the rafters, willing my hands not to give
out. The guard below me stubbornly refused to move, his head
turning as he examined the covered alleyway. He must have seen me dart
this way—
Or be an old enough hand at this to know I would hide, I thought, the
idea of being predictable tasting like bile. I was unseelie; a changeling
child. Falling into patterns should be against my very nature.
The man stalked past me, jabbing his spear into bags of garbage. I held
my breath, my magical knack keeping me from needing to gasp for air as
my muscles burned. If I didn’t move – if I could hold on for a little longer
and stay in the darkness above his head, wedged between the rafters – I
wouldn’t get caught.
“Fucking hellcat,” he snarled, his voice rough and bitter. “I’m gonna find
you, you red-haired bitch, and you’re gonna fucking pay.”
The pain in my hands from clenching on the rafters made my ears ring
and vision haze, but I knew I had to stay hidden. Seven years in the mortal
world was enough time for me to learn that humans were far crueler
predators than the hunters of the silver wood, and I’d hidden even from
unseelie predators. Humans enjoy the taste of revenge. I couldn’t risk
getting caught.
The guard made it far enough away that I decided to move. I dropped
from the ceiling, timing the drop to a cart rolling past, and fled out of the
deep shadows to the drain outside of the alleyway. Such things always had
spells on them, to keep unsavory types from slithering into the underbelly
of the city, but this one had been broken only two days ago, and no one had
come to fix it yet.
I should know. I’d broken it myself.
Ignoring the startled sounds of the passers-by, I forced myself through
the opening, scraping skin off my hips and elbows in my haste. I hit the
water of the sewer with a splat and kept moving, crawling through the footdeep mucky water as the flash of steel behind me told me the guard had
arrived. He stabbed blindly into the dark tunnel, cursing me.
I heard him shout, “Get the ratting dogs!”, and allowed myself a grim
smile. I didn’t have enough magical power to even rank as a hedgewitch,
but I nearly did, and my knack was a great deal stronger than most. As long
as I had air in my lungs, I didn’t need to breathe. I could hide with the eels
instead of the rats.
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