The Custodian of Marvels by Rod Duncan

Author:Rod Duncan [Duncan, Rod]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Steampunk, Gas-Lit Empire, alt-future, Elizabeth Barnabus, patent power, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780857665034
Publisher: Angry Robot
Published: 2016-02-01T13:00:00+00:00

Fabulo’s anger quickly turned to remorse. Seeing the intensity of his emotion, I sent the others away.

“Would you like me to go also?” I asked.

“Go,” he said. And then, “What am I to do?”

“You’ll think of something.”

“It can’t be done without the locksmith.”

“You have the key,” I said.

“That would get us through the gate. But then we’d just be stuck in an empty plaza, waiting for the soldiers to come and get us.”

“Then you must go to Jeremiah and apologise.”

“I will not!” he snapped.

We were both outsiders, Fabulo and I. But the difference that set me apart from polite society could be disguised. For him, it would always be the first and last thing that anyone saw. I supposed he grew his armour to deflect the glances that saw him as something less than human. His prickly temper. His immunity to insult. His indifference to emotion. He had always seemed indestructible to me. But in that, perhaps I, too, had been blind to his humanity. How many cares can one pair of shoulders carry? One worry at a time was the way he had described his role in leading our enterprise.

He sat on his bedroll. Then he lay down and turned over so that his face was pressed into the blanket.

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