A Binding of Echoes by Kalyn Crowe

Author:Kalyn Crowe [Crowe, Kalyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1671284097
Published: 2019-12-23T16:00:00+00:00

19 - Consumed

Tilly drooped and closed her eyes.

When she saw me, she must have wanted to know what happened to Philomena. Somehow Tilly understood what the leveled house meant. The Order destroyed every heretic's home.

A couple of carriages stood with no horses or drivers near the abandoned lot. No one else was here.

At least until the rattle of plate armor came from all three of the intersection's exits.

"Out for a little joy ride, Lady Nardovino?" Duri came into view between the lot and me.

A woman and a man also on horseback blocked the right, and two more men blocked the left, all templars.

The woman leaned forward in her saddle and said, "So this is Nardovino's niece? She's not much to look at."

"That mount of hers sure is," the bigger of the two left men said. Built like a brick house, he also spoke like one.

Duri leaned back in his saddle with a sneer. "Did you steal that thing or what? No one has ridden the creature since the Weaver witch."

Kepi pulled again at my collar. The angle of the street and her position on my back hid her from their sight. "Guess I'm just good with animals."

"Yeah, I'm sure that's all it is." The sneer turned into a self-satisfied grin.

"She probably stole it," said the man next to the big one. "Should we arrest her, Lord?"

Odion's claws scraped the stone. Apexials wouldn't fight, but he would die in my defense, the same with Kepi. I couldn't let that happen. I patted his side. "It's all right."

"Is it?" Duri said with a plastered properness. "We should escort her back to the stables."

The woman sat up and shook her head in the most snobby way possible. "That's not like you."

He returned his smug face to its snide shape. "I want to see everyone's face when we arrest this girl and kill that thing she's riding. It can't be an Apexial. It would have left. Same with the little one who stayed with the witch's daughter."

The woman giggled, again exaggerated.

It set my nerves on fire. "You're all idiots."

She again shook her head. "How dare you?" She gripped the handle of her sheathed sword.

Tilly darted from her dark corner, jumped, and pecked the back of the woman's hand.

She gasped and held it. "Monster!"

Tilly took up position in front of me with a caustic hiss.

The man next to the woman slipped off his horse and pulled his sword. "Looks like Master Bora was right. These damned people are up to something sinister." He stood ready.

Duri laughed.

"What's so funny, Farago? The irony?" I said but still looked for an escape, blinded by anger.

He stopped and wiped his eye. "What? Do you even know what you're saying? It's your uncle who can't even solve these attacks. Doesn't that seem odd to you?"

"What has your grandmother done to solve them, or even prevent them? Templars are just the meatheads who go where they tell you."

"Our High Templar gave his life to save your sorry asses, and this is how you regard our Arm?" Duri dismounted.

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