Assassin's Creed Odyssey by Gordon Doherty

Author:Gordon Doherty
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2018-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Erinna held out a hand and clasped Roxana’s. Both held on tight as the heavy footsteps approached. They stared at the gaunt man sitting opposite them. He was as filthy, bruised and scared as they were. The footsteps were joined by heavy breathing. Louder, louder . . . and then it all stopped. The cell door clicked and groaned open. The two girls hugged one another, closing their eyes tight, wanting to make these last few moments together count, waiting on the Monger’s meaty hands to snatch one of them away.

But it was the man who screamed. They blinked and looked around just in time to see the fellow on his front, clawing at the floor, aghast, the Monger’s oily hand wrapped around his ankle, dragging him like a toy. “Time to burn,” the giant brute grunted as he hauled his latest victim into the dock warehouse’s main chamber.

The cell door clicked shut.

“There is no one else,” Roxana whispered, looking around the filthy cell at the places where others had been sitting until one by one each had been dragged away like that. “Next time, it will be one of us. We will never see Anthousa again.”

Both of them jolted in fright when the cell door clicked again. They stared, seeing the reed that had been skillfully wedged in the door’s bolting mechanism—preventing it from locking—floating to the floor, then gawping at the woman standing in the doorway, draped in leathers and weapons. She paced over to them and crouched, her eyes like flint as she waved them up. “Go, stay low and head for the main doors. Make haste for the spring in the mountains.”

“Will you guide us?”

“I cannot,” said the woman. “My business here is not done.”

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