(eng) Miles Cameron - Masters & Mages 01 by Cold Iron

Author:Cold Iron [Iron, Cold]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

They spent some hours – some very uncomfortable hours – with the City Watch. The presence of four aristocrats both helped and hindered them. The corroboration of both prostitutes that the Westerners had puffers and used them, as well as the evidence of the Watch magiker, saved them from worse. The Watch’s medico cleaned the wound in Aranthur’s left bicep.

‘Get an Imoter to knit the muscle or you’ll never have full use of the arm,’ he said. ‘And while I’m giving advice … Don’t get mixed up with this faction shit, kid. People like you and me – we aren’t shit to they aristos.’

Aranthur started. ‘This wasn’t faction! They tried to kill us!’

The City Watch officer shrugged. ‘Sure, whatever you say,’ he opined. ‘Looked like a bunch of Lions going for some White aristos to me, but what do I know?’ He smiled grimly. ‘When you have a belly full of steel, don’t say I didn’t try to warn you. Now get to an Imoter.’

Imoters had once been priests of Imotep, the God of Healing, but now they were usually magikers with a specialty in medicine.

‘Aploun!’ Aranthur cursed to Dahlia. ‘All my word lists are due tomorrow.’

‘Aploun,’ Dahlia said. ‘We’re alive. Don’t be such a prig.’

Aranthur helped Kallinikos home. The aristocrat was silent and withdrawn.

‘What’s wrong?’ Aranthur asked.

Kallinikos gave him a bitter smile. ‘Have you ever done something you really regret?’

Aranthur shrugged.

Kallinikos shook his head. ‘Never mind.’ He shrugged. ‘I’m having a fight with my father.’

‘Can I help?’

Mikal shrugged. ‘No way I can think of. I just don’t believe things I used to believe. That makes everything … complicated.’

Aranthur thought of his father and mother as he walked home, and nodded in sympathy.

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