Halloween in Atlantis_Poseidon's Warriors by Alyssa Day

Author:Alyssa Day [Day, Alyssa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alyssa Day
Published: 2016-10-29T23:00:00+00:00

8

Liam’s shoulders slumped. The stress was clearly getting to Jaime. “A costume contest?”

“I know, it sounds ridiculous, but listen: we announce that the top three prizes go to a princess, a pirate, and a ninja. See?”

“No. I don’t see.”

She grabbed his arm. “The thieves aren’t going to show up for the prizes, so we’ll be able to more easily find them in the crowd. The costumes make perfect sense; don’t you think?”

Alaric narrowed his eyes. “No. Explain. Now.”

“Well, if they stole more jewels, which we don’t know yet--”

“Which you don’t know yet,” Alaric told her, which ticked Liam off.

“Look,” he said, before Alaric could annoy him again. “If you know something, you need to tell us.”

Jaime’s smile was brilliant. “There’s an us? Let’s definitely make time to talk.”

Alaric’s warning growl snapped the stupid smile right off Liam’s face.

“Princesses and pirates wear and carry jewels,” Jaime explained in a rush. “And a ninja has a face mask to help hide his identity. They’re perfect.”

“Well, let’s go make it unperfect,” Liam said.

“Agreed,” Alaric said. “I’ll inform the guards of the plan.”

With that, the priest sliced one hand through the air, which opened up a straight line in the fabric of the back of the tent, and then he exited through it.

“I’ll have to pay for that plus the missing costumes,” Jaime muttered, looking hopeless.

Seconds later, though, the tent fabric wove itself back together, good as new.

You’re welcome, said Alaric’s disembodied voice on the Atlantean shared mental pathway.

Jaime jumped. “Did he just put his voice in my head? That’s so creepy.”

Liam’s interest sharpened. “You heard that?”

“Yes. Didn’t you?”

“Only Atlanteans, or those who share the Atlantean gene, can communicate via the mental pathway,” he told her.

Do you hear me, too, or was it just him?

Her eyes widened. “You can do it, too? That’s wild. I wonder if I can do it. Let’s remember to figure it all out once we find our thieves, okay?”

“Deal.”

The first party goers in need of costumes entered the tent then so, after Jaime made sure that Sanchez and Williams were following the system she’d set in place, Liam took her hand and they followed the music to the temporary stage that had been set up just outside the palace gardens.

The Atlantis orchestra was playing one of its original compositions, and the group around the stage was one part appreciative listeners and dancers, and one part crazed musical scholars. The discovery that Atlantis actually exist and had maintained a separate civilization for more than eleven thousand years had been news of mammoth proportions to academics of all kinds. Every day, more and more researchers applied for permission to come and study—historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists had been first, but linguists, musical theorists, and literature professors hadn’t been far behind.

“Oh, Liam, that’s so beautiful,” Jaime said, sighing. “I feel like I could happily spend the next ten years doing nothing but sitting here listening to this music. If only--"

Suddenly—impossibly—Liam wanted to ask her to dance. To feel her head nestled against his

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