The Goblin Gate by Hilari Bell

Author:Hilari Bell [Bell, Hilari]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-10-24T22:00:00+00:00

He tried to be patient, but it was hard. More days went by, and the goblins didn’t come. Almost two months had passed since Tobin had gone into the Otherworld—he had roughly a week before the sickness began to affect his brother, and then…Master Lazur had said the illness could last for several weeks—but what if the sickness moved swiftly with Tobin? It might only take another week for him to die!

Jeriah had to get into the Otherworld with those spell notes now! But until the Lesser Ones and the goblins contacted him, there was nothing he could do but continue his search.

The other squires speculated about why he was so snappish, and also why he ignored the inviting glances his good looks won him from the young girls at court. Jeriah snapped at them.

One of his friends’ idle conversations about the barbarians reminded Jeriah of something he could offer the goblins—but even if he gained their services, where should he have them look? Start with the library, despite what Mistress Koryn had said. Then the locked temple storage? The public offices? The wine cellar, the food storage, under Master Goserian’s bed…Even if he found it, he couldn’t what? What in the Dark One’s name was keeping Daroo? And where were the lesser magic users who were supposed to contact him?

More and more, Jeriah’s thoughts turned to Koryn—she might not know where the notes were, but he’d bet she could make a pretty good guess!

He was looking across the dining hall at her table, again, when Marof said, “Don’t bother. She’s not interested in anything but dusty notes.”

Marof was the most annoying of Jeriah’s friends—of course he’d be the one to notice.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” But he couldn’t control the hot color rising in his face.

“I’m talking about the fact that you’ve been watching the nettle queen for the last week,” Marof said. “And I grant you, those eyes of hers—”

Jeriah didn’t want to listen to comments on Koryn’s eyes. Particularly from Marof, whose descriptions of a woman seldom focused on her face. “The nettle queen?”

“Prickly as nettles.” Marof grinned at him. “And cold as ice. Not even you could make that one bloom. And if you’ve tried…well, that certainly explains why your temper’s been so short!”

“Why does everyone always assume that all I want from a girl is—”

“Don’t let him get to you,” Ranan interposed hastily. “He only says that because he got nowhere. And small blame to her, if she’s not feeling…Well, I’d give a girl who’s lost that much some time to recover before I made a move.”

“Lost what?” Jeriah asked. “I thought…I assumed she was born crippled. Was there an accident?”

If she’d just lost the use of that leg, no wonder she wasn’t interested in flirting!

Three sets of eyes turned to him.

“You don’t know?” Harell asked. “But it was the talk of…Oh, that’s right. You were in the north when she arrived.”

“What don’t I know?” Sometimes it was hard to keep his friends on track.

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