The League of Peoples by James Alan Gardner

Author:James Alan Gardner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504048903
Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Published: 2017-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

Rashid and Steck fell silent as Cappie and I entered the waiting room. For the first time it struck me how handsome Rashid actually was. His long black hair made him look dashing, even rakish, but his eyes had a poetic sensitivity to them, like a man who has always been too intelligent to feel at home among the people he meets. I could understand how he’d fallen for Steck—both of them fish out of water, a Spark and a Neut, distanced from the common crowd.

“So the operation’s over?” Rashid asked Cappie. He was trying to sound casual, as if he and Steck hadn’t been fighting. “How’s the little girl?”

“She’ll be fine.” Cappie turned to me. “I’d better take her back to my mother now. Do you know where you’re going to be?”

“I promised ‘Maria’ I’d stay with her until the gods come at noon.”

“Why don’t you and Steck walk me around town?” Rashid suggested. “We’ll talk to people. Investigate Bonnakkut’s death.” He sighed, as if the murder had been committed purely to spoil his day. “We can always hope a witness saw someone sneaking behind Bonnakkut with a knife.” The Spark Lord turned to Cappie. “If Tobers noticed something suspicious like that, whom would they tell?”

“The neighbors,” she answered drily. “But eventually they’d go to the mayor.”

“Then we’ll go to the mayor ourselves,” Rashid said. “Ask if he’s heard anything.”

Cappie nodded, then leaned in and gave me a quick kiss on the corner of my mouth. “After I drop off Pona,” she murmured, “I’ll meet you at Mayoralty House. We’ll find a place to talk.”

Then she was gone.

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