(eng) Pam Uphoff - Wine of The Gods 07 by Taste of Wine

Author:Taste of Wine [Wine, Taste of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

"So, Kola, you're from Havwee, right?" Damien took a bite of his sandwich and chewed while Kola worked out whether she wanted to be from there or not.

She flipped dark tresses over her shoulder and finally nodded.

"All those babies the virgins of Ba'al were supposed to have given birth to? Is there really a lady, a witch or something, in Havwee collecting them? Raising and training them to be baby gods?"

"Why do you want to know?"

"Cause she'd be proof that someone is more insane than I am."

They all laughed about it; they'd heard about the kids that had hidden in his hay loft for three days before he caught them. He munched while they talked all about the infamy of the man who had kicked them out, and their cleverness in picking Damien's Freight as the place to go to.

Eventually the conversation swung back around to the crazy lady in Havwee. "Momma did say something about a lady over on Bread street that used to be a Ba'alist. I don't know about kids though."

Jasmine wrinkled her nose. "I don't like the idea of baby gods. Babies are only cute and funny because they can't hurt anything. If they could do magic stuff, like when they threw a temper tantrum, they'd be worse than mad dogs."

Kola giggled. "Can you imagine an orphanage full of them?"

Mattie sighed. "They'd rule the place, and the Wardens wouldn't dare do some of the things they do."

Damien nodded. "She'd have to be magic herself, I suppose."

He headed back out, but found no more conversational gambits to bring up the subject. Three days later, Andrai, checking the recordings while he had the kids busy helping out with deliveries, told him the Rescue Team had left for Havwee.

"They're picking up gossip from the Sooty Duck? Crap, should we risk a recorder?" Damien looked over at Andrai.

"I'll see what we've got, that we'd dare use with them looking for EM. We could deploy it after they get back."

"And in the mean time, where should we send them next?"

"This is not a game, Damien."

"Of course not."

But he did manage another trip to the racetrack.

"What is that horse's breeding?"

Damien looked around and blinked in surprise. Princess Nicole, with an escort of Ladies and Guards.

"I'm afraid we don't know. Hard though it is to believe, this fellow was run into the ground and abandoned. We posted a claim for feeding him that was never answered, so he's legally Eddie's."

"Old gods! Whoever abandoned him must have known he was valuable, to have not gelded him."

"Well, we, umm, treated him with Havwee Temple Water." Damien floundered then, uncertain what subjects weren't discussed in High Society. Openly, with strangers. No doubt in private they were all just as raunchy as the commoners.

But her eyes twinkled. "Oh, yes. If you have the real thing it can cure anything. I shall have to send a mare to him." She glanced around. "And you haven't bought any lamed horses today."

"Three was quite enough. The two slow mares are doing nicely pulling a light cart.

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