Elegy by Vale Aida

Author:Vale Aida [Aida, Vale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-09-28T06:00:00+00:00

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The rest of the night was a confusion of over-loud music and too-bright lights. Emaris remembered trying to ask an ill-phrased question, only to have Hiraen send him headlong into the many arms of the octopus, who transpired to be an excellent dancer. By the time he untangled himself three songs later, Savonn had downed an entire tankard of summerwine and was cheerful again, if stricken by the tendency to cantillate—loudly, mournfully, and perfectly on key—a variety of gazelle-related verses every time Emaris opened his mouth to speak.

Soon after, Hiraen retrieved Nikas and bundled them all into a carriage bound for their lodging. Emaris dozed and woke and dozed again, voices flowing over him and melding into the fabric of his muddled dreams. “I will reiterate,” said Nikas, “that the prospect of fighting my former brother-in-arms does not trouble me. If you ordered me to kill him, I would.”

“Your conscience or lack thereof is not my affair,” said Savonn, each syllable loose and lazy. There was no other sound save the regular clip-clop of the horses’ hooves. Hiraen must have gone back for Daine and the others. “Did you think I hired you to do my killing? How… pedestrian.”

“Didn’t you?” asked Nikas. “No, I suppose not. You had other things in mind.”

It occurred to Emaris that Nikas was dead sober, and disquietingly, Savonn was not. “And you have performed impeccably in all regards,” said Savonn. “Like the eager hound, leading its hunter to the boar… You may stay to watch the kill, though I cannot promise you a share of the meat.”

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