Holmberg, D K - The Collector Chronicles 02 - Shadow Games by Holmberg D K

Author:Holmberg, D K [Holmberg, D K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2017-11-20T16:00:00+00:00

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When Carth reached the tavern, she felt lighthearted. There was nothing wrong with the idea of abandoning this city. She owed it nothing, not as she felt she owed other places, and the people here either did not want her help or did not need it. Talia continued to choose to serve the Collector despite every attempt Carth made to draw her out and try to help her. She hadn’t found anyone else who might need her help.

They would leave. She hadn’t decided whether she was willing to steal a ship, but if it came to that, she decided, she might need to. She would do whatever it took to get away from Keyall and get her and her people to safety.

The tavern was filled with the soft sound of music but Carth hurried through, wanting only to get to her friends so that she could share the plan with them.

When she reached the room where Boiyn would be with Linsay, she hesitated. Where were Jenna and Alayna? Had they been drawn inside? If they had, she worried what might have happened to them. What would Linsay do with them? Would she try to draw them over to her side, try to convince them that Carth had it wrong about her?

She knocked on the door and pushed it open.

It was empty.

Not empty—not entirely.

A figure slumped in a corner, and Carth hurried over to it, grabbing for her connection to the shadows and the flame, readying for whatever attack might come for her.

It was Boiyn.

His wrist had been cut and blood dripped across the floor. He slumped forward and Carth grabbed him, propping him up and leaning him back.

“Boiyn,” she said.

His eyes fluttered and he looked up at her. “Carthenne?”

“What happened?” she asked, ripping off a strip of fabric from her shirt and using that to stop the bleeding. It did little other than slow it.

“What happened?” she asked again.

Boiyn took a shallow breath. It was barely anything, and as he tried to speak, she could tell that he wouldn’t have the strength necessary to get the words out.

“Carthenne?”

She lifted him and brought him to the bed, where she laid him down. She looked for other signs of injury, her time and training in Asador and other places having taught her how to search for the most critical of injuries, but found nothing other than what had happened to his wrist. It continued to bleed, soaking through the tourniquet.

He wouldn’t make it. There was no way to survive bleeding this heavily.

What had happened here?

She looked around but saw no signs of a fight. The Tsatsun board rested on the table, a game partially played. There were no signs of Jenna and Alayna, and Linsay was missing.

Neither Jenna nor Alayna would have done anything to Boiyn, so whatever had happened here must have been Linsay.

Carth couldn’t believe that Linsay would attack Boiyn like this. She might work for the Collector, but she would never believe that Linsay would harm him. He had

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