Marshsong by Nato Thompson

Author:Nato Thompson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780578459981
Published: 2019-03-06T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The twins each left their mutual meetings and headed separately toward their appointed rendezvous. Both were riding a little high from their previous surreptitious plotting and had their minds in the clouds.

Nevertheless, the journey to the Guild was neither easy nor simple—a drainage pipe along the harbor served as the entrance to the catacombs that fed the Guild’s home. An enormous lock hung heavy on the entry gate. Long ago, the twins had been gifted with certain access to the world, and upon their arrival, its rusted hinges simply creaked open. A small creak of spillage seeped from its entrance making a stinky pool of dung and crud.

Inside the mouth, the tunnels went on beneath the entirety of the city—a labyrinth of steel and bilge that echoed in the movements of the few things besides rats that scurried about its subcutaneous surface. As light as their feet were, the twins still made tapping sounds that echoed down the dark maw of the metallic tubes.

Fennel arrived at last. Isabella could hear her him humming a little dityy as he skipped along:

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