MYTH Alliances by Robert Lynn Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye

Author:Robert Lynn Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye [Asprin, Robert Lynn & Nye, Jody Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9781592220090
Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2004-07-26T00:17:34+00:00

SIXTEEN

"Give 'em the old razzle-dazzle!"

--B.

FLYNN

Loud clattering on the other side of the door made me

jump in my eternal circuit around the cell. This time I was

going to knock the guards unconscious and run for it. Very

quietly, I lifted the now empty washing pitcher out of the

bowl and tiptoed over to flatten myself against the wall

next to the door. Slowly it opened and pushed inward. I

raised the pitcher.

"There you are, handsome!"

Tananda threw herself into the cell and mashed me

against the wall, pressing her lips into mine. "Mmmph!

You must really have missed me, Tiger. Is that for me?"

She plucked the pitcher now hanging unsteadily over

our heads from my nerveless fingers.

"Forgive the delay," Zol smiled, entering in Tananda's

whirlwind wake with Bunny.

Behind them trailed a huge Scammie guard, his eyes

fixed dreamily on Tananda. His breastplate was slightly

twisted to one side, and his tunic was rucked up inside it. I

also noted that his hair under his helmet was mussed.

"Things have been a little unsettled in the city. We had a

little trouble entering this building. I am very impressed by

the magik-dampening field! It certainly did not originate in

this dimension, but it serves them well. Such a thing ought

to be put into use in the Bazaar at Deva. It would cut down

on some of the misunderstandings that occur there every

day."

I smiled at him, mentally noting that if anyone in the future should happen to want to import the same kind of

magik-dispeller in use on Scamaroni, I would campaign

against it with every ounce of my influence. I'd been taken

plenty of times in my day, and though I didn't enjoy it, I'd

never change the way the Deveels operated their most impressive establishment. If you weren't savvy enough to

shop in the Bazaar, you shouldn't shop in the Bazaar. Taking the challenge out of it was approaching the problem

from the wrong angle.

"I'm glad to see you! How did you get in to see me?"

"Oh," Tananda twinkled, with a grin at the guard, "I

have my ways."

"I bet you do," I agreed, a trifle embarrassed, as she and

Bunny exchanged sisterly winks.

Only one of Tananda's talents was being a successful

Assassin. Another came from a Trollop's natural proclivities, and all I can say is that circumstances have always

seemed to prevent me from finding out about them myself.

I was grateful they'd managed to get in to see me, but troubled that she had had to do something like that to accomplish it.

"We are ostensibly your legal counsel," Zol told me,

"but Mistress Tananda has managed to convince our escort

to allow us privacy."

"I'm sorry if you had to ... do anything to rescue me," I

stammered, attempting to censor my thought in midspeech.

I think I blushed. Tananda laughed and put her hand on

my arm.

"Don't be. It was fun. You won't believe what they can

do with those noses."

"I don't want to know!" I yelped. I glanced past them

into the empty hall. "Where's Gleep?"

"Back on Wuh with Wensley," Bunny replied. "He's

taken quite a fancy to the Wuhses. They've gotten over being afraid of him, I think. They pet him whenever he asks,

they feed him treats, and they never scold him, even when

he damages their houses.

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