Exiles and Gods (Wine of the Gods Book 2) by Pam Uphoff

Author:Pam Uphoff [Uphoff, Pam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Iron Ax Press
Published: 2013-12-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

February, 2236

New Tokyo, Pacific coast of Asia

All told, the voyage consisted of three weeks of borderline queasiness and eating more dried toast and biscuits than anything else.

She staggered ashore in New Tokyo and simply stood on the bricks of the sidewalk, enjoying the sensation of being whole and able again.

People converged on her. She recognized the sleek black carriage and stooped to her luggage. Dug out the package and letter and handed them to the God of Art as his driver stopped beside her. He tossed her a little bag and the driver cracked his whip and took his master off.

Simon—Dr. Golan—had stopped dead to watch the interchange. Now he approached more cautiously. "Perhaps I should have been calling you Lady Sally all these weeks?"

River laughed. "Heavens, no! He’d have offered Lady Sally a ride home, instead of tossing her a tip. I’m just a lowly messenger, and glad to be done with it." She nodded toward the two advancing witches. "But you can amuse the other parts of my Triad by calling me that, instead of River."

"Ha! I knew it. No one gets seasick quite like a witch."

"Oh, I thought I had quite a minimal case of it. I never lost my lunch overboard."

"That’s because you never ate much of it." Simon turned his eyes back to the pair of witches.

"Simon, may I present Amused and Flattered? Guys, this is Dr. Simon Golan. He’s a physics professor."

"Oh my." Amused was a well-named young woman. "We have been talking about advancing, haven’t we?"

Simon turned beet red.

River felt her own cheeks warm and Flattered laughed.

"A pleasure to meet you, but I’m afraid we have to grab River and run off. Our Senior Sister wants the news from the south."

Simon bowed to them, as Amused and Flattered grabbed her and hauled her away. Drat, I didn’t even get an address where he’s staying.

"Did you guys see the meteor, three weeks ago? It hit about two hundred miles north of New Miami."

"That close? Wow." Flattered released her arm, apparently realizing she wasn’t trying to escape and chase down the handsome man. "We saw the fireball, and felt the earthquake. There’ve been rumors about impending disasters circulating."

"And the mayor called for the Old Gods to intervene." Amused smirked.

"That must've hurt." River grinned at the thought. Mayor Brigham had often claimed that with so many gods about there was no longer anything special about the old ones. He and Art disagreed about nearly everything. It livened up local politics to no end.

"Anyway, what are the odds that it will happen again?" Amused shrugged the subject away.

"Go north, away from the city, go north." It was the familiar voice of an old woman, Lady Gisele, everyone called her.

"Go north, away from the city, go north." The warm bass rumble of the War God.

"Go north, away from the city, go north." Another man, worried.

"Go north, away from the city, go north." A woman, detached emotionless advice.

"Go north, away from the city, go north." "Go north, away from the city, go north.

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