Summernight by Sarah K. L. Wilson

Author:Sarah K. L. Wilson [Wilson, Sarah K. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah K. L. Wilson
Published: 2019-06-27T22:00:00+00:00

19: Byron Bronzebow

Tamerlan

BY THE BLOOD OF THE dragon, move!

Byron was yelling in Tamerlan’s head – as if he had any control over his own body. Ha! He was nothing but a ghost haunting his own body.

Byron leapt from the gondola, grabbed the top of a pole held by the surprised gondolier beside them, swung in a full arc from the pole, his feet slicing through the air like a knife, and then rolled into a flip while airborne to land on a third gondola. His feet slapped on the wood of the boat as he ran from stern to nose, kicked up on the bow and leapt to the peak of the ferro, balancing there for the barest sliver of a second before kicking off to summersault forward through the air to land on the deck of a houseboat pulled against the canal wall.

They were going the wrong direction! They needed to go to the palace! This was their only chance to get through those doors with an invitation in hand. No guards to stop them. Nothing to turn them around!

First, we right this wrong.

What wrong?

He was already scrambling up the sheer stone face of the canal wall, his fingers and toes finding cracks to climb that he hadn’t even known were there.

He reached the top of the wall, climbed onto the street rail and began to run down the narrow rail with the balance of an acrobat, sprinting into the darkness in the exact opposite direction he wanted to go. What could possibly be down here?

This.

Below him were two Watch Officers. One of them – a red-headed woman with short hair – seemed familiar. They both held axes in their hands, grim expressions on their faces.

In front of them, a Waverunner family boat filled with water while the family desperately tried to pull chickens and heirlooms and bedding from the boat as the water filled it. They hung from the sides of another house-boat, the people in the second boat all speaking in a loud jumble while someone wailed at the top of her lungs.

“It’s our home! Don’t you understand?”

The red-headed guard was speaking. “You are hereby in violation of City Law 214-a stating that all boats in the City of Jingen shall – ”

Tamerlan’s mind was flooded with a much louder voice.

SEE? Injustice! They take from these people their homes and livelihood. Those are The Forerunners of the Retribution!

We just called them Waverunners.

The sacred people of Queen Mer. They are relentlessly peaceful. Killing them or taking anything from them used to be a crime punishable by death!

They weren’t the only people who had been pulled up to the small jetty where the City Watch Officers stood. A small craft that looked like a gondola but was smaller, narrower, and sleeker was pulled to one side and the other guard held up a writhing boy who stood on the deck of the sleek craft a long oar in his hand.

Tamerlan leapt from the wall, landing between the guards.

“Unhand the boy!”

“On whose authority?” the red-headed woman asked, her eyebrow arching arrogantly.

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