Outlaw Fantasy by Saskia Hope

Author:Saskia Hope
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448131662
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Chapter Six

IT WAS ALL made easier because Wing was so very beautiful. Janine had her hair cut to shoulder length and dyed black. She painted her lips into a coral rosebud and though she was taller and thicker-set than the little Chinese girl, she was slim and short in stature by European standards. The Chinese girl was saffron but Janine was a clear pale butter-colour with a warmly tinted skin that flushed a faint peach when she was aroused. Her skin had not the smoothness of the Oriental girl’s because she was covered in a fine short down of gold-red hairs but this faint fuzz did not show under the spotlights.

Her only shame was that the hair at the base of her belly was dyed to match that of the hair on her head. Strange that this should embarrass her when nothing else did, but so it was. Her mind felt free and loose. She had a superstitious notion that a plan would come to her, help would come to her, and somehow she would win the challenge, save Will from the venomous cup and they would all go free. And live happily ever after.

She knew it was a fairy tale but that did not matter. She could not leave the city and let Will die, even if she had to die alongside him. She could not, of course, ask such a sacrifice from Wing to whom she was a meal ticket, the gateway to a better life. But in exchange for Wing’s help at this early stage in her rescue attempt, she gave the girl the knowledge she would need to contact Fee when she entered the Town, telling Wing that if she told Fee she had seen Janine and Wolf, Fee would help her to a new life knowing that she, Wing, had helped Fee’s friends down in the city.

‘Wolf goes by the name of Will in the Town,’ she murmured, ‘but do not use that name here.’ Janine did not know why Will went under an alias in the city but she had come to respect his knowledge at last and to abide by his decisions. At last, when it was too late. She might not understand the need for an alias, but she accepted that the need was there.

The two girls had hired themselves to a showman who was even now erecting a booth on the edge of the plaza where Will hung for all to see. Many such booths were springing up. For the rest of this night and the next, a great crowd would gather and there was room for sideshows to build up excitement before the main event. Will’s death in the snake pit, sacrificed to the Amazene god-queen, was the main event.

The tented structure that was the booth contained some seating and a stage lit from the front and the back with spotlights, and cut transversely by a tissue screen. There would be some titillation in the performance the girls intended to make, a little teasing before the audience saw fully what they were paying for.

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