Deception (Rise of the Black Dragon Book 6) by Jada Fisher

Author:Jada Fisher [Fisher, Jada]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2020-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

8

Curtain Call

They watched. They followed. And finally, they decided the penultimate day was when they would make their move.

Originally, she thought they would wait until the third day, their final one, but they all decided together that was too expensive. And that, if they failed or something went wrong, the group would already be packed up and ready to go.

So no, that wouldn’t do at all, and thus the second day was picked. Ukrah could feel the energy swirling within her when they entered the city again, this time in different outfits and a different arrangement.

Cassinda and Athar were a father and daughter traveling together while Ethella waited on the edge of the city with Eist and Fior. Ukrah and Crispin were separate, dressed more like street urchins than the richer folk they had been before. Eist had explained that once, only a generation or so ago, it would have been unusual to see children of their complexion running around the streets, but as travel had increased, so had intermingling. Apparently, Ain’s own mother had remarried a prominent Margaidian merchant and had two beautiful, healthy babies together and they weren’t shunned from society.

That had certainly been a surprise to Ukrah, who had been enslaved simply because of the color of her skin and her foreignness, but she guessed that some progress was better than none.

Not many would think twice of her slinking into the show, no doubt guessing that she was either trying to pickpocket some marks, snitch some food or just enjoy a bit of revelry for herself. And that was if anyone noticed her. One of the benefits of being a scamp in a city was that most people were more than willing to overlook a hungry orphan.

She hoped it was enough to keep people’s eyes off them. She hoped that they hadn’t already been made by the sect members holding the vessel hostage. But even if they were, she knew there was no way that she would back down on trying to rescue the girl. Anytime she thought about how they held the new vessel captive, about how they used her magic to benefit themselves and fund their persecution of witches, Ukrah’s blood began to boil in her veins in a very particular way.

“Hey, clear out of here!” a loud voice startled her, and she jumped, seeing the vendor from the meat stall she was idling by leaning over his elevated counter to yell at her. For a moment, her heart froze at the fact he was using Common with her—how did he know?—but then he said more in what she vaguely recognized as Margaidian, then more in something else.

Okay, that was a mild relief. Ukrah knew that many people used the Margaidian coast for their holiday, so it made sense a vendor would know how to tell someone to bugger off in multiple tongues. If anything, it made sense for him not to pick just one to berate her in.

Still, it was far too much attention, so she scurried off to try to act more naturally.

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