Baldur's Gate by Philip Athans

Author:Philip Athans
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, General, Fantasy, Games, Fiction, Role Playing & Fantasy
ISBN: 9780786915255
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Published: 1999-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

"One missing guard doesn't frighten me, fool," Sarevok growled into the empty picture frame. He paused, waiting for or listening to an answer Tamoko couldn't hear.

She stared at her lover's back and tried with no luck to center herself. Here she was again, in Sarevok's bed, watching him peer into, then talk into, then shout into, then threaten into that accursed frame. He was nervous, Tamoko could see that. Things weren't going against him. Sarevok wasn't the type of man, if man he was, who would tolerate that. If some part of his plan was going awry, he would have gone out himself to fix it rather than sit and issue commands from afar. He trusted no one, including Tamoko, and suffered fools and lackeys with only a modicum of patience. Still, he was intent on something. Something was coming to a head, and she didn't know what it was, but she could feel it out there, in the winds.

She ran a hand down her smooth, strong arm and concentrated on the feeling of that simple touch. Sarevok had touched her like that but not recently. As whatever was happening gained its momentum, his interest in her had waned. She missed him, missed his touch, and every day she grew more afraid. She wasn't afraid of Sarevok, though she'd seen that he was capable of extraordinary cruelty. She was afraid for him. She saw the potential in this commanding individual, and she couldn't help thinking he was wasting his potential. This man who had an air of supernatural strength to him-mental strength as much as physical strength- was serving some master even as he planned a rise in his own power. He was wasting his many gifts on a grab for-what? Power? Gold? He could have Tamoko, a trained assassin who gave herself freely to no one before. He commanded unnatural creatures-doppelgangers the least of them. Men trembled at the sound of his voice, the burning of his stare. Tamoko knew this man could be king of the world, but he seemed interested only in mines, and ore, and bandits. He employed bandits.

She wanted to say something, convince him that he could have more, that he could be more, but she held her tongue. She was afraid even thinking these thoughts in front of him, was sure he knew what she was thinking and was only biding his time, waiting for her to outlive her usefulness.

He will kill me then, she thought, kill me slowly like the others. Could he really touch me the way he has, kiss me the way he has, and kill me like that, like a traitor, scorned and dishonored?

The fact that he could, that she knew he could, made her shudder.

"What do you mean you can't find the book?" Sarevok said, his voice as heavy as the world itself. "He wasn't supposed to see the book."

* * * * *

"There are men, and elves," Jaheira reported quietly, "and a large number of dwarves. They're in chains.

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