Fearless by Laura Legend

Author:Laura Legend [Legend, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Vampires, Cassandra Jones
Publisher: Hyperspace Media LLC
Published: 2019-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

22

IT WAS EASY to follow Maya through a crowd. The sea of people instinctively parted for her. Cass and Zach just had to keep up and follow in her wake.

Maya was leading them through the London Underside. She took them down a busy but subdued thoroughfare—was it just Cass’s grief, or was word of the attack on the monastery coloring the mood of the whole Underside?—past the original BO-BS bar, and down a side street into a part of the hub that Cass had never visited before.

The streets narrowed and turned to cobblestone. The buildings were smaller, older, and packed more closely together. The district had the distinctive vibe of a medieval European city, but peppered with neon lights.

Wearing jeans, t-shirt, jacket, and boots, Cass marveled at how Maya how could be so sure-footed in heels on the street’s continually uneven surface. Zach, Cass noticed, was studiously not marveling at Maya’s feet or legs or anything else. Pretending not to notice Maya was a little ridiculous, but Cass appreciated the effort. She could get behind Zach’s newfound interest in architecture.

With smaller crowds and narrower streets, however, they began to lose some of their anonymity. As they bumped into people headed in the opposite direction, Cass started to notice people whispering and pointing at Maya. Maya was, unsurprisingly, a person of some reputation and, especially in the London hub, not hard to recognize.

Soon, though, the whispers and fingers began to multiply, smalls knots of people began to gather, and Cass felt their attention shift away from Maya and toward her. Cass was the one getting recognized now.

A group of teenage girls called out after her, phones at the ready for celebrity selfies.

“Cassandra! Cassandra Jones! Destroyer of Worlds! We love you! Wait!”

Cass looked at Zach, bemused. “Destroyer of Worlds?”

Zach winked. “You definitely rock my world.”

“It’s because you won the tournament,” Maya said wearily, glancing back over her shoulder at them and rolling her eyes. “You ‘destroyed’ all the competition. It’s a popular meme.”

Cass still looked puzzled.

“You’re not on Instagram, are you?” Maya asked, steering them away from the girls and down a side alley.

Cass, as a matter of fact, was not on Instagram. She wasn’t even sure she knew where her phone was. Had it melted in the monastery? When was the last time she’d paid her phone bill? She was either going to have a lot of roll-over data or none at all.

The alleyway was tight. It passed under an arch, branched, and then became even tighter. Soon, Cass could reach out and touch both walls of the alley at the same time.

A big burly fellow in coveralls stepped out of an adjoining alleyway and blocked their path.

“Trouble,” Zach whispered and started to pull Cass in the opposite direction.

Cass, though, brushed him off. “Maya can handle this,” she whispered. Cass was confident that this was true—and she was also entertained by the idea that Maya might break a nail.

The fellow reached into his pocket and everyone tensed. Then he pulled out a pen and a rumpled tournament program and a big smile broke across his face.

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