In Shade And Shadow by Barb & J. C. Hendee

Author:Barb & J. C. Hendee [Shade, In & Shadow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Vampires, Horror, Quests (Expeditions), General, Fiction, Fantasy, Dwarfs, Epic, Occult & Supernatural
ISBN: 9780451463029
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-01-05T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

Wynn sat alone on her cell’s bunk within the military’s castle, staring at a heavy wooden door with no inner handle. On top of everything else that her superiors held against her, being arrested was going to destroy any grain of credibility she had left. She took a deep breath, trying to calm thoughts spinning out of control, but the effort failed.

A shrouded black figure, who could walk through walls, had stolen a folio and killed three of the Shyldfälches. The city guards had barely slowed it down. This only strengthened Wynn’s belief that it was an undead as well as a powerful mage.

And Chane had appeared in the company of this monster, just as he had with Welstiel.

Then Chap had bolted out of the dark to protect her—only to vanish in pursuit of the black-robed undead.

It was too much to hold all at once in her head.

If Chap was here, then where were Magiere and Leesil? Though she ached to find Chap, to learn why he’d come, her jumbled thoughts kept turning back to Chane.

Once a minor noble in life, he was a scholar and sometime warrior who’d stood between her and death more than once. He was also another monster, a killer who fed on the living and had ended or ruined many lives. She’d tried to shut him out, to make him leave her once and for all in that forgotten castle of the Farlands’ highest peaks. Yet here he was again—always again and again.

Wynn slumped, elbows on knees, and buried her face in her hands. Why had she believed his denial in the street?

She’d been disoriented by that thing coming out of the wall and the sudden appearance of Chane . . . and then Chap. Too much had happened in those panicked moments. Yet, even if Chane was a Noble Dead, he’d always revered the guild.

In Bela, across the eastern ocean, before anyone knew what he was, he’d often come at night to sit with her and pore over historical texts. Not once had he shown the slightest threat to her, Domin Tilswith, or the others trying to establish the bare beginning a new guild branch.

So how and why was he involved with the missing folios? And what had happened inside the Upright Quill that led to a conflict between him and the cowled figure? Perhaps Chane was more interested in the work of sages than she’d ever guessed.

She stiffened at a metal jangle outside her cell door. The heavy lock clacked, and the door opened partway.

Rodian hung in the opening, staring at her.

What could she say that would matter at all to him?

Oh, don’t worry. The wolf was actually an elven dog, a kind you don’t know about. And along with a woman you’ve never met—a half undead, half something you don’t believe in—and a half elf you’ve never heard of, they hunt undeads, and . . .

Oh, yes, that would fix everything. They wouldn’t lock her up for interfering with the city guard.

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