Blades Of Destiny by Terah Edun

Author:Terah Edun [Edun, Terah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Terah Edun Publishing
Published: 2018-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

16

Sara was watching the calculating gleam in Chatteris’s eye carefully. Even if she hadn’t been deadly serious, Sara knew as well as she did that Chatteris had nothing to lose. She was in the superior position, after all.

Being the blood of the crown had its perks.

Even so, Barthis looked ready to object. And Sara was mildly grateful that he at least didn’t seem to want his subordinate openly browbeaten. At least, not by anyone but himself.

Or maybe it is that he objects to her infringing on his authority, Sara thought wryly. In either case, if the expression on his face was anything to go by, she’d better speak up before they landed in the same shackles that had formerly graced the wrists of the Kade invasion leader.

As Barthis stiffened, preparing to say something, maybe do something, in Chatteris’s presence, Sara spoke up. She didn’t want to start a war or even lay out a threat, she just wanted to get going.

So she said the last thing either one of them expected.

“Not a problem.”

As she eyed them with confidence in her eyes and terror in her heart, she noted that they both looked like they had been hit over the head with a lantern for a moment, although the empress’s representative recovered quicker.

Barthis said, “What?”

With a clap of her hands and a smile on her face, Chatteris said, “Delightful!” As anger rose in Barthis’s eyes, she continued, “I so knew that we could count on you, young woman.”

Sara pursed her lips, but managed to hold back the stream of impolite words she wanted to launch at the bitch.

Instead, she stood up straight and said, “I know what I need to do, and I’ll get it done, Captain, my lady.”

It was the absolute last thing she wanted to promise, but she would have said anything to get out from under their speculative eyes and into the hinterlands.

Pausing and taking a look at the empty area surrounding them, Sara thought, The farther hinterlands, anyway.

At least then she would be on her own with nothing but her group and herself to be responsible for. No assignments getting in her way. No battles to be fought. Just a quick escapade to who knew where under the cover of the darkness.

It was the last part that was a big ask, though, and it was a little exasperating that Chatteris had homed in on Sara as the only one who could go on this mission. They could choose someone else, pick someone, but the tiny, wiggling doubt in her mind said she didn’t want them to select another individual. Her duty and sense of honor commanded that she take up the mantle offered to her, despite how absolutely absurd this challenge was.

Barthis cleared his throat and looked over at Lady Chatteris. “If we could have but a moment?”

Looking between them with a satisfied smile, the empress’s representative replied sweetly, “Only just. I’ll circle back around.”

Then she did as he asked, walking off to eye a species of flower, as if it was worth more than saffron itself.

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