Glittering Shadows by Jaclyn Dolamore

Author:Jaclyn Dolamore [Dolamore, Jaclyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2015-06-16T06:00:00+00:00

Nan found Sigi downstairs talking to Adrian, a tall young man who worked in the kitchen.

“What’s going on?” Sigi asked. “Ingrid just left with a group. Adrian said they grabbed some food on their way out.”

“I need to go after her.”

“You’d better not go without me,” Sigi said. “Let me get my camera. Adrian, could you pack us some food?”

Nan suppressed a smile. Sigi might have tried to escape the socialite life she’d been born into, but she still possessed the ability to give breezy orders.

“They won’t be very fast,” Sigi said, as they shoved their clothes into a bag. “They carried out two trunks that looked heavy. Say, isn’t that Thea’s valise?”

“Yeah, she’ll understand, though. Come on.” Nan shouldered the bag, and they rushed down the stairs. Adrian had a parcel of food and a flashlight ready for them.

“You’re the best,” Sigi said. “I hardly know you, but you’re the best.”

They stepped out into the night. This cold air blows down from Irminau, Nan thought. The neighborhood felt forbiddingly large when they were planning on leaving it behind.

“Do you know where she went?” Sigi’s whisper produced a cloud of frigid breath.

“No, though I think I know where she’s headed.” Nan’s skin tingled, intuition pricking at her temples. She proceeded cautiously, staying close to the wall around Mr. Schiff’s house. Usually guards were posted at the corner, near the old subway station, but she didn’t see them. She crept forward, Sigi just behind her.

Sigi stopped. “Is that a body, there? By the subway station?”

Nan had been looking for people standing, not collapsed, but Sigi was right: There was a human-size lump of darkness at the entrance to the subway station. She approached a little faster now, and the lump didn’t move.

It was one of the Chancellor’s guards, and he’d been shot. The subway entrance was open, and she saw another man slumped halfway down the stairs.

“Ingrid’s work?” Sigi asked.

“I think so.”

Nan started down the stairs, trading the brisk breeze of a winter night for air that was damp and still.

“Some of them are probably still down here.” Sigi’s eyes turned haunted. “The dead.”

They were several miles from the spot where the workers had escaped—but some of them could have come this way. She held out her hand.

“Where is she headed?” Sigi asked, as they descended the concrete steps. The station was now inhabited mostly by spiders—or at least, the ghosts of them. Nan switched on her flashlight, and wherever she pointed it, ragged gray webs floated from ceilings and between turnstiles. The musty smell roused memories, but there was no sign of death.

“To King Otto.”

“Really? Isn’t he abusive to magic users? I thought her whole philosophy was about respecting magic users.”

“I expect she plans to control him the way she did Thea and the men here.”

“What are you going to say when you find her?”

“I don’t know. I thought maybe I could show them all Thea’s wooden hand and use the wyrdsong.” Nan didn’t know if the wyrdsong would work

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