Overland Quest by DC Ware

Author:DC Ware [Ware, DC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quantum Publications
Published: 2019-01-20T23:00:00+00:00

Lyla was feeling better. The tea Granger had prescribed for her had broken her fever and the food Maverick had brought her back from the pier was restoring her strength.

Maverick had brought her enough food to feed a barracks. Beef and mutton with wastrel bread, fruit, onions and garlic. Salted herrings as an appetizer and almond pudding and custard pies for dessert.

He told her that he had assumed Oxley would be back by time he returned with the food having spent all his gold at the first brothel he visited or else having been robbed of it by one of its buxom wenches. The fact Oxley had not returned yet impressed Maverick, maybe the big oaf knew more of the ways of the world than he let on.

“Here’s your share of the transaction Lyla. One hundred gold. Out of the three hundred, I gave the old innkeeper sixty, Oxley got thirty and the other ten I used to pay our bill at the tavern for the food and rooms and to buy all this food. That left 100 gold pieces each for me and you.”

“So Gilbo was true to his word, uh Maverick?”

“I guess so.”

“I wish I could of went with you Maverick. I would have liked to have gone aboard a real sailing ship. How many guns did you say it had?”

“At least sixteen maybe eighteen. Eight or nine on each side.”

“Wow. A real fighting ship and a real captain. C.a.p.I.t.a.n. Meeelan!!” Lyla drug out the last syllables of the captains name causing Maverick to burst into laughter.

“I’m just glad Granger’s tea worked. I was going to pay the leech to bleed you tomorrow if you were not feeling better.”

“Bleed me. What about the healing potions?”

“Well I left one with him to give to you but he said the bleeding would cost half as much and if it didn’t work he could always give you the potion then. Sounded reasonable to me.”

“Oh, if you put it that way. Yeah.”

“Speaking of Granger, where did he say him and his surly friend were heading.”

“I don’t remember. I was hardly awake. I just recall something about the Third Knight having need of him and something about you being in love with me…”

Lyla stopped chewing the mutton she had in her mouth. She had not meant to bring up that last part. She looked up at Maverick, raising her eyes but not her head.

“What was that last part?” Maverick said with his eyebrows furrowed over.

“What last part?” Lyla asked as she started chewing again.

“You said something about me being in love with you.”

“I didn’t say anything about you being in love with me you cretin. I said he mentioned something about you being in love with mead!”

Maverick was silent. Lyla was silent.

“Oh, in love with mead. Yeah. Well that’s true. I guess I did drink a lot while he was with me these few days.”

“Umm, hmm” was all Lyla said as she resumed eating and quickly changed the subject to the raspberries in the almond pudding.

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