Bardic Voices Omnibus by Mercedes Lackey

Author:Mercedes Lackey
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Epic, Bards and Bardism, Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Fantastic Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction, Detective and Mystery Stories, Historical, Magic, General
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

"I guess the licenses weren't enough for him," she said in a low voice, after a quick glance around showed no one close enough to overhear a careful conversation.

"Aye," Kestrel replied sardonically. "L-look at the hhouses, th-though —"

Something about the square had struck her as odd, though she couldn't put a finger on just what was different about it. But once he said that, she took a closer look at the fine mansions that faced the Cathedral —The outsides looked the same as before — but the windows were black and empty. It was getting dark, and there should have been lights in those windows, curtains across them. There was nothing, and there was no sign of life about them. Only bare, blank windows, like the empty eyes of a madman, staring at the Cathedral.

"They're deserted!" she exclaimed, keeping her voice to a surprised whisper.

"My g-guess," Jonny confirmed.

She could only wonder why. Had their wealthy owners decided that what had happened to Orlina could all too easily happen to them and cut down on their households and visibility — or had they decided that Gradford itself was no longer a healthy place for them and gone off elsewhere?

Or had Padrik decided that where Orlina had gone, others could follow? Were the prisons full of other "heretics," waiting to receive their own pendants?

If so, Padrik was going to get a big surprise eventually, when all of them surfaced to testify against him in Kingsford.

Always providing, of course, that the Justiciars at Kingsford did not consider High Bishop Padrik too dangerous a man to cross . . .

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