LORD OF THE ATLAS (EPIC HISTORICAL FICTION) by COLIN FALCONER

Author:COLIN FALCONER [FALCONER, COLIN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyview Holdings
Published: 2021-05-24T20:00:00+00:00

27.

Harry woke to the sound of a woman screaming.

‘What the hell is that?’ George said. He got up and lit a candle, took it to the window and threw open one of the shutters. ‘There’s lights in that tower over there. What is that?’

‘The harem,’ Mou said from the dark behind them.

‘What’s going on, do you think?’

‘The djinn has come back,’ the boy said.

‘More like someone being murdered. When you’re living with bandits, bad spirits are the last thing I worry about.’

The screaming stopped, started again a few minutes later. She sounded as if she was being tortured. Sleep was impossible. Harry tried to plug his ears with his fingers. It made no difference.

Dawn crept up the sky, Harry peered out, saw shadows moving about the court below them. The muezzin began the call to prayer. ‘Prayer is better than sleep, come and pray.’ The melodious chanting was interrupted by the piercing shrieks coming from the harem.

He heard voices outside in the corridor and then slippers padding on the stone stairs that led to their rooms.

He turned towards the door and waited.

A moment later it opened, and the Chief Eunuch walked into the room. He was a brute of a man, any muscle he had once had now turned to fat, his skin was smooth as basalt, coal black and the size of one of the granary doors.

‘Are you the magician?’ he said, looking at Harry.

‘Well, I can make money disappear in no time, but I think that is the man you’re looking for.’

The eunuch fixed his solemn eyes on George. ‘You are to come with me. Bring your magic with you.’

George dressed quickly and picked up the satchel with his medical kit.

‘This doesn’t sound good,’ Harry said. ‘I should come with you.’

The Chief Eunuch put a hand on Harry’s chest and pushed him back into the room. ‘Just him,’ he said.

The woman screamed again.

‘I’ll be alright,’ George said. He sounded a lot more confident than he looked. Harry felt someone squeezing his hand, hard. He looked down. It was Mou.

‘Everything will be alright,’ he said to him, as the door slammed shut again.

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