Cunning Devil (Lost Falls Book 1) by Underwood Chris

Author:Underwood, Chris [Underwood, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2017-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

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I eased open the door of the boathouse to find I wasn’t the first one to arrive. Rodetk was lit by an electric lantern that hung from a nail on the wall. He paused at the sound of the creaking door, a red plastic fuel tank in his hands.

He was covered from head to toe: gloves on his hands, a hoodie covering his long ears and stringy hair, a bandanna across his face, and a pair of dark glasses over his eyes. But he couldn’t do much to hide his long thin limbs and the slight inhuman hunch to his back.

I closed the boathouse door behind me, shutting out the pre-dawn light. For a moment, the two of us just stared at each other as the river lapped at the boathouse’s foundations.

Rodetk was the first to turn away. He clambered into the dinghy and fitted the fuel tank to the outboard motor. I carried my backpack over and laid it next to the boat ramp.

“They still use you to scare goblin children,” Rodetk said as he prepared the dinghy. “Work hard, do what you’re told, or the Natiz-Tuk will get you.” He raised his head, but I couldn’t see his eyes behind his dark glasses. “The witch in the shadows. If you’re bad, he’ll come for you. He’ll boil your blood, carve out your spleen, and grind your bones to dust for his spells.”

“Sounds like I need a new publicist,” I said.

He grunted. Climbing out of the boat again, he fetched a small pack he’d left lying in the shadows below the electric lantern. By the look of it, he was taking even less than me. Guess he didn’t plan on being there long.

I had a change of clothes and a little food in my backpack—most of the food you can find in the Mines is intended for goblins, and I’d had my fill of that four years ago.

Everything else of importance I had on me. I was still wearing my coat loaded with vials and charms and fetishes. If this went bad, I wanted as much protection as possible.

My truncheon of silver and iron and wood hung from my belt, and in my right coat pocket was the revolver the Dealer had given me. I’d brought the Dealer’s spirit bottle with me as well, though I figured if I needed to open that, we were already way past screwed.

“So what’s this plan of yours for getting into the Mines?” I said.

“There’s an old mine shaft on the west side of the mountain,” Rodetk said. “It caved in about eighty years ago, so it was never properly warded. It was cleared out by smugglers. That’s how I got out of the Mines. It’s how we’ll get back in.”

“Since when was it so hard to get into the Mines?”

“Since the sorcerer came.” He threw his pack into the dinghy with unnecessary force. “Khataz’s paranoia is worse than ever now. He doesn’t want anyone going in or out of the mountain without his knowledge.

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