Rebellion: Tainted Realm: Book 2 by Ian Irvine

Author:Ian Irvine [Irvine, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780748134168
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2013-03-12T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 51

“Was blowing the door off a great destruction?” said Tali.

The smoke was thickening, whirling and tumbling in the updrafts created by the ravine. She could hardly see Tirnan Twil now.

“Did it kill anyone, or destroy something vast or vital?”

“No.”

“Then the answer is no.” He looked down the ravine, then up. “Can you hear them?”

“The people inside?” she whispered, shivering.

“No, the gauntlings.”

It was hard to tell over the roar and crackle of the fire, the wind whistling along the gorge, and the pattering rain.

Kaark! Kaark!

“They’ll come after us, won’t they?”

“Once the smoke clears, they’ll come down to check. With the gusting winds around here, it’d be too dangerous right now.” He glanced at the sky. “Not much daylight left, which is good. Though it means…” He gave her a sympathetic smile.

“What now?” she groaned.

“We’ll have to walk the cliff path out – the really dangerous one – in darkness.”

“What do you mean the really dangerous one? How could it be worse than the one we came in on?”

“It’s worse.” He was smirking.

Tali could not smile. The destruction of Tirnan Twil had burned all humour out of her.

“However I do know a secret way out,” said Holm. “If we can get out of sight we can lose them in the night.”

“Luck isn’t something we’ve had much of, lately.”

“We’re alive, free, and in improving health. I count that as good luck.”

“Just as a matter of interest,” she said as they trudged along, “where are we going?”

“I thought you’d decided that when I was injured and out of it.”

“I was heading in the direction of a place called Garramide. Though I don’t know where it is.”

“It’s a few days east of here, in the middle of the Nandeloch Mountains.”

“Good. I’ve had enough of travel,” said Tali. “About the portrait?”

“What portrait?”

“The one you stuffed in your pocket up on the seventh level. I assume it’s Lyf’s self-portrait. Why did you take it?”

“I suppose, like you, I saw something in it.”

“Do you think it’s the key?”

“Probably not, but self-portraits are always revealing. If it’s cleaned up it could tell us something useful about him.”

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