The Demon's Surrender by Sarah Rees Brennan

Author:Sarah Rees Brennan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 2011-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Sin did not dare move while the magicians searched the ship for her. If she ventured out, she was bound to betray herself.

Of course, staying where she was, she had plenty of time to think about how Seb might betray her.

She stayed put despite her doubts about how long his courage would last and despite her longing to act. This was her best chance, and that meant it was Lydie’s best chance as well.

She counted the seconds as if she was doing exercises and had to hold herself in position, so her mind would not play tricks with time. She lost count a few times, but she knew she waited in the dark for well over an hour before the noises outside dulled and centralized, concentrated at a spot a little way away.

Sin assumed they were getting ready for their party. The question was, would they want Lydie there or not? Would a scared child be a trophy or an embarrassment?

She wished Alan were here, or Mae, someone who could make a plan.

The only thing Sin could think to do was go look.

So she pushed the door cautiously open with her foot, gradually so it did not creak, listening for every sound. She slid out of the wardrobe like an eel, magic knife at the ready.

She missed her throwing knives so much.

The corridor was empty. Sin slipped along it and down the stairs, then waited with her hand hovering over the door, her other hand clasping the knife, and her breath snared painfully in her throat.

There was no sound directly beyond the door. Sin just touched it with her palm, and the door slid open a little, then a little more.

Beyond the door was the dining room with no lights on, the dimness illuminated only by the glow of lights at the top of the far wall.

The ballroom and the dining room had obviously been one vast room recently transformed into two. The wall that divided them was built only so far. The large wooden rafters ran along the vaulted ceilings of both rooms without a break.

There was a supper laid out on the table now, tiny sandwiches in rows like soldiers and jellies gleaming like jewels. Sin eyed the chairs pushed neatly in under the table; their carved wooden backs looked sturdy enough.

Sin closed the blade on her knife and tucked it securely under the wire of her bra. She could not risk it falling out of a pocket.

She charged forward, taking a running leap at the chair and then launching herself from the top of the chair back, somersaulting into the air. Behind her the chair rocked on two legs before falling back on all four.

Her hair flipped into her face, air rushing around her but none in her lungs, every burning molecule of her aware that if she fell, the crash would bring the magicians in the next room running.

The backs of her knees hit the rafter. She latched on and swung like a pendulum until she

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