A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay

Author:Guy Gavriel Kay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2019-05-14T04:00:00+00:00

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Antenami was very pleased with himself, hopeful that two desires could be assuaged now that he had found her.

He had little interest in the family business. The ledgers and bookkeeping rules his brother had tried to teach him seemed desperately tedious. He understood them (in fact), but he didn’t care.

At the same time, he was entirely happy to deploy the wealth generated by their banking empire. They were beginning to rival Seressa, it was said—which could be dangerous, but that would be for his father and brother to address. Antenami had elected to be undisturbed if he was left to the side regarding such decisions, as long as he had money to spend. His older brother defined him as incapable. That was all right.

He’d spent family money this afternoon in the Falcon district. Three men had been paid sums. The third reported seeing their rider come down from a balcony in back of a house while singers were serenading her in front.

No, he had no idea where she’d gone, but she’d walked off in a cloak beside another man—and a third person had followed them, he said. North, he said. At a guess, to spend the night outside the walls. An assignation? He smiled a tavern smile. He hadn’t said anything to anyone because it amused him to see all those Falcon fools in front, more arriving all the time, hoping she’d come out to them. He was from the Goose district, adjacent. Let the Falcon people sing to her—pointlessly.

Antenami truly hoped there was no assignation. He didn’t think there was. Not a romantic one, at any rate. He believed himself to have instincts about women and horses. Better with horses.

He rode out with two of his men, north along the main road. Nothing useful at the first inn they checked. At the second one he found her.

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