The Demon Apostle by Salvatore R. A

Author:Salvatore, R. A. [Salvatore, R. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780345391537
Amazon: 0345391535
Goodreads: 529593
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2000-04-04T07:00:00+00:00

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IT WAS NO ACCIDENT OR coincidence that brought Colleen Kilronney to the Way that night. The woman was no fool by anyone’s measure, and she had always been among the most attentive of Baron Bildeborough’s house guards. While Colleen had not been good friends with the Baron’s nephew, Connor, she had seen him many times, including on his wedding day.

And she had seen his bride.

Something had struck Colleen as familiar when she had met the woman companion of the one called Nightbird, though Connor’s wedding had been years before. At first Colleen had assumed Pony merely resembled Connor’s bride, Jill, daughter of the former proprietors of the Fellowship Way.

As time passed, other clues had begun to fall into place for Colleen, particularly the familiar-looking hilt of the sword Pony had carried belted at her hip. Colleen had hardly noticed it up north, but as she considered the meeting, replaying it in her keen mind, that sword hilt had become more and more tantalizing.

It resembled, to no small degree, the sword of Connor Bildeborough, a celebrated family weapon, Defender by name.

Now, in the Way, the resemblance between Belster’s wife and the woman Pony was harder to dismiss. Though Belster’s wife appeared older, the way she had moved belied that. She moved like a warrior, like the woman who had accompanied Nightbird, the woman who had resembled the wife of Connor Bildeborough.

Colleen stood in the street outside the Fellowship Way collecting her thoughts, putting all the clues together. All the area was quiet and dark, save one burning streetlamp and a pair of men sitting against the wall of the next building.

“A woman,” Colleen asked of them, “a woman who came out of the Way—did ye see her?”

The two men shrugged and went on with their conversation.

It made no sense to Colleen; there was no way Belster’s wife could have gotten that far ahead of her. She turned back toward the tavern door, wondering if, perhaps, the woman had not really left the place. She even started that way but stopped then, remembering something else about Connor’s wife, something she had once overheard. Connor had been talking to a friend, another of the Baron’s house guards, when he had mentioned a special place that he had shared with his Jill, a quiet place within the city, yet removed from the city….

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