Carrion Crow by Talis Jones

Author:Talis Jones [Jones, Talis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781791398804
Published: 2019-03-25T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

“My apologies, Leitfaden,” he offered with a bowed head.

Adrianna squinted into his face and slowly recognition settled upon her. She had not seen this man in months, not since the day he left her upon the shores of Oneiroi watching her with the sun at his back turning him into naught but a calculating shadow. “Titus?” she asked hesitantly. The further past the finery and makeup the more certain she was and at once the impossible spectacle from before made sense. The magician was Titus, of course his tricks had seemed real as they probably were.

“I’d like to speak with you, if I might,” he requested while his eyes roamed her face carefully.

After a pause she nodded. “Lead the way.”

Titus led them through the fringes of the crowd towards a lesser populated corner of the hall and beckoned her inside one of the canopies reserved for a Queentia game. Once Adrianna stepped inside and seated herself upon a velvet cushion curtains fell obscuring them from passersby. Titus settled opposite the girl.

“I see you’re no less fierce than the day I met you,” he noted with a nod towards the poor lord she’d cowed. “Fiercer even, seeing as that was the prince’s cousin Jared Shashem. A close relation and a powerful man within the Llyrian borders.”

“I fail to be impressed,” she replied calmly. Titus grinned. “What is it you wanted to speak to me about? Does it concern Geoffrey?” Suddenly butterflies pried loose in her stomach and nerves danced within her.

“It concerns everyone. Indirectly.”

“More of this vague information drawn out for dramatic effect where you talk talk talk yet say nothing?” challenged Adrianna crossing her arms with growing impatience. She stomped down on her fear, reigned in her curiosity, and with a steady eye waited in silence for Titus to speak his tale or be gone. Sometimes silence loosened tongues better than words. She waited.

At last Titus’s narrowed eyes gave in with an inaudible sigh. “There is a prophecy that holds the fate of Oneiroi. It was recited by Israfil in a vision many years ago when a nameless woman gave birth to a set of twins. The woman requested the babes be separated far apart and Israfil’s vision confirmed the wisdom of it. One child, a girl, was taken aboard my ship and left upon a doorstep where she was received by a kindly painter and named Cassandra. The other child, a boy, I left upon the doorstep of a young nurse who chose not to keep him but gave him the name Geoffrey nonetheless.

“The twins were prophesied to each be tested. One would throw this world into chaos and darkness and if so then the other must choose to restore order and light or follow their sibling’s path and rule side by side until death do them part. Cassandra, as you well know, fell to the darkness setting the prophesy into motion. The Whispers had but to prepare and to wait. And then that day at last arrived when I carried your brother aboard my ship and took him home.

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