Doormaker: Library of Souls (Book 3) by Jamie Thornton

Author:Jamie Thornton [Thornton, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Igneous Books
Published: 2019-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

The Library of Souls dormitory reminded Maella of a brighter, better cared for version of the dormitory in the Tower of Shadows. The room was smaller and cleaner, and natural light filtered down from glass windows set high on the walls. Torchlighters were already set up on the beds. One bed per person. They had needed to share in the Tower of Shadows.

The dormitory had clearly been split into two sections—those who were already book catchers and the newly arrived torchlighters. It was easy to tell who belonged to which group since the book catchers didn’t have the same purple marks on their skin like Maella and the other torchlighters.

Dev and Deep were holding court like they had done back at the Tower of Shadows. But people were missing. Torian, Junle, Feren—and many others. Only about a dozen torchlighters remained from both night and day shift combined. They had lost more than half of their original numbers.

Maella and Sethlo walked up. Deep stood, her head matching the height of Dev’s head though he still sat down.

“Good to see you all made it here after all. We’re about to check out the stacks.” Deep nodded at one of the book catchers who took up well-posed laziness on their own beds. “They’re supposed to show us the work.”

Maella scanned the torchlighters. Chucko and Herren looked squeaky clean. Lo’s hair was still wet and pulled back into a tight ponytail. They all wore new clothes. Old torchlighter gear was scrubbed and damp, drying on the beds or back on their waists, legs, chest, and arms. Then she scanned everyone a second time and her eyes lit upon Senta and Tomi.

She glanced at Sethlo. He had tried to force Tomi to open a door for them. It was almost an unforgivable act, but a part of Maella wished she hadn’t stopped him. Utheril wanted to know who Tomi was—this knowledge might be the key to the One Door and everyone she searched for.

Who are you? The question must have shown in her eyes because Tomi looked away, chin jutting out in stubbornness.

Sethlo took a step toward Tomi and Senta. “I am sorry, Tomi.”

Tomi hunched into himself.

Senta frowned. “Stay away and leave him be.”

“I am sorry,” Sethlo said.

“Enough,” Deep said. “There are bigger things to worry about. We have nothing left to our names because they confiscated all of our licatherin.”

One of the book catchers spoke up. “As it should have been. Hoarding has no place in Jillow City.” Both his facial expression and tone were neutral—but his words were clearly a challenge and the torchlighters took it as such—some standing up, others mumbling sharp words.

Dev shook his head at the torchlighters, a clear message to ignore the book catcher’s words. “We must each work off our debts to the torchlighters who came before us who allowed us this path. We will send our return home credits to—”

“But there’s an army outside the city walls,” Maella said, thinking they had not heard.

Dev nodded. “That does not mean trade has broken.

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