Samantha Moon 44: Moon World by J.R. Rain & Matthew S. Cox

Author:J.R. Rain & Matthew S. Cox [Rain, J.R. & Cox, Matthew S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Anvar

The last house to check on is Londuin.

It’s also the one both Tammy and Lindsey feel is least likely to resort to assassinations for power. Then again, if Nesanth has killed and replaced Anvar Londuin, what they know about him would be irrelevant. We’ve decided that the key to figuring this out is to determine which of the nobles is behaving in a manner that’s inconsistent with how they are portrayed in the novels.

Thus far, they’ve all been spot on.

We bumped into the others—as in, everyone—on our way across town and stopped to have a brief discussion right in the middle of the street. Demetria’s influence basically ensured our privacy from casual observation. Anything we say or do, alas, Nesanth will know as though she’s the author writing about us saying and doing things. In order to have true privacy from her, we would need to be in Demetria’s manor.

Anthony and Demetria explain how their meeting with Roldon went. I try not to panic too much when my son talks about assassins ambushing the man right inside his house. Hearing the killers materialized out of nothing confirms they are Nesanth’s doing, at least to me. Lindsey thinks it’s possible magic could give assassins the ability to teleport or go invisible. However, there is no precedent for that sort of thing in the prior books, so she dismisses it as unlikely.

From what the others tell me about Nald Mur and Roldon Barathor, it sounds like they’re probably not Nesanth. Anthony is firmly convinced Roldon can’t be the dark master. The kid’s got some crazy good intuition along with the pseudo-angel stuff, so I give his opinion a lot more weight than most moms would give their teenage son’s hunch.

Kingsley thinks the assassin went after Roldon’s daughter primarily as a distraction to expose his back. When trying to kill a guy who supposedly has supernatural abilities to know where his opponents are going to be before they move, it would take something like sudden emotional panic to throw him off.

Allison suggests the attack on the Barathor children had been performative: staged for Anthony and Demetria. Rather convenient the assassins showed up while they’d been visiting, as in, to cast doubt on Nesanth’s presence there (why threaten the children of a man she’s impersonating).

I brought my whole crew along for help to survive this trip into another reality… not to constantly keep coming up with reasonable theories that contradict each other. I’m thinking maybe Nesanth sent those assassins there when she did in hopes Roldon would somehow blame Anthony or Demetria for it. Yeah, I’m going to trust Anthony here: Roldon isn’t the dark master.

We’ve more or less used up an entire day running around and there’s one guy left. Since we’ve all gathered in a single group, we decide to get the last of our investigation over with right away. Demetria will go back to her manor house with Damon, mostly since he’s a ‘famous’ face around here and draws attention. Anthony decides to go with them as well to be nearby in case something attacks.

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