Cook, Glen - Black Company 04 - Shadow Games by Cook Glen

Author:Cook, Glen [Cook, Glen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

One-Eye overdid it. He has that way when he has an audience. He gets too

exuberant. Our prisoner expired from sheer terror. We gained nothing from him

but notoriety.

As though we needed that.

Chapter Twenty-three: WILLOW, BATS, AND THINGS

It was late. Willow yawned as he tumbled into his chair. Blade, Cordy, and the

Woman looked at him expectantly. Like the Prahbrindrah couldn’t talk for

himself. “We talked.”

“And?” the Radisha demanded.

“You maybe expected him to jump up and down and yell, ‘Oh, goodie!’ ”

“What did he say?”

“He said he’d check it out. Which is about the best you could expect.”

“I should have gone myself.”

The Prahbrindrah said, “Sister, the man wouldn’t have listened at all had not

someone just tried to kill him.”

She was astonished.

Willow said, “Those guys aren’t stupid. They knew we was up to something way

back when they let us hook up with them at the Third Cataract. They been

watching us as close as we been watching them.”

Smoke drifted in with all the racket of his namesake. It was a big room in the

cellar of a friend of the Radisha, near the olive grove. It smelled moldy

although it was open to the night in places. Smoke came a few steps into the

light cast by three oil lamps. His face puckered into a frown. He looked around.

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