Fever Quest: A Clean Historical Mystery set in England and India (The Isabella Rockwell Trilogy Book 2) by Hannah Parry

Author:Hannah Parry [Parry, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

“No!” Rose’s voice was almost a shout. “I won’t go back in there, and nor will Livia. It will be the death of her.”

Rose was as unhinged as anyone Isabella had ever seen, and the temptation to leave her behind was almost overwhelming. The last thing she needed to factor in to her plan was mad Rose with her swirling eyes, festoons of spittle escaping from one corner of her twitching mouth. They could leave her and she might know no different.

Isabella swallowed hard.

No.

There would be no leaving of anyone; not any more.

“We have no choice. You either stay here alone or come with me. Rose?” Isabella took Rose by the shoulders and waited until her eyes alighted on Isabella’s own. “What will it be?” Rose’s eyes gradually stopped spinning. “You don’t want to go back to your parents, do you?”

Rose looked at her mutely and shook her head.

“Good. You must concentrate, then, and do what I tell you. Do you think you can do that?”

Rose’s mouse-brown head nodded and her eyes suddenly became clear as she focused on Isabella.

Isabella mentally shook her head. What was she thinking of? If ever there were an expedition unlikely to succeed, this was it. A sadhu, two ferenghis, an invalid and a dog. She might as well step out on the road and wave the white flag of surrender. Thank God for Vritra, who had helped them to the door of the mine and was now telling the guards he was escorting them back to their cells. She didn’t like to think about how they’d have managed without him.

Livia’s face was white and her breath was coming in harsh gasps. Isabella took Livia’s arm and looped it over her own shoulders.

“Just stay with me,” she whispered, as the dark of the cavern embraced them and they left daylight behind.

She could hear Vritra up ahead, talking to a miner in Hindi. Livia’s breathing was loud in her ear and she was warm with the effort of supporting Livia down the winding stone steps to the vault beneath. On into the belly of the earth they wound their way, until Isabella felt Kali’s gaze fall upon her and her chamber opened in front of them.

“Put her in one of the chairs,” said Vritra. Isabella wondered briefly whether they had any idea Midge had found a diamond.

A blast of hot air came from a tunnel cut into the wall facing them. Was that the one she’d seen Midge emerge from?

“Is that tunnel four?” she muttered to Vritra as she wrapped one of her saris around Livia’s shoulders.

Rose plonked herself in a chair next to Livia. Rat looked at Isabella expectantly, shifting his weight from paw to paw.

Vritra was lifting a torch from the wall.

“Yes, it is.” He handed her the torch. “But you are to go that way. That is where the prison is.” He gestured towards the only other tunnel off Kali’s chamber, which sloped downward into darkness. “We’ll wait for you here. There will be no guards.

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