The Mercenaries of the Stolen Moon by Megan Derr

Author:Megan Derr [Derr, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisexual, Asexual, Poly, Transgender, Fantasy, Romance
Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC
Published: 2018-11-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Myra stared out the grungy window a few paces from where he sat on a narrow bed. They were in a small inn just outside Odokka, with Ryan and everyone but Kim having gone back into the city. They'd left that morning, and it was approaching evening. The day had been long, tense, and miserable—exactly like every day before it.

He just wanted it all to be over. The worst part of going to his death was that it was taking forever. Not that he wanted to die, but this slow waiting, sitting around doing nothing, day after day of eat, sleep, wait, eat, sleep, wait, was damn near worse than death.

Never again would he complain about the tedium of rearranging the schedule for the five hundredth time, or sorting out what legal texts would need to be pulled for Allen to look over, or writing out contracts in multiple languages.

Since their arrival in Odon, he'd been moved around three times. The only good thing was that every inn they stayed in was of good quality, so he got decent food and a comfortable bed and didn't have to worry about lice and other vermin.

Minus the ones who'd kidnapped him, anyway.

Kimberly kept watching him, and she was always the one put in charge of babysitting him while the others were out, but since their conversation about her brother, she'd not said a word to him. Her doubts and worries were plain enough to anyone who knew to look, but Ryan and the others were so distracted by reporting the failed mission to their liaison that nobody paid Kimberly much attention. It was clear they didn't consider her a real part of the team; she was treated more like a servant than an assassin.

So far as making her an ally was proceeding, he was about to declare that a monumental failure. Whatever her reticence and doubts regarding the clans, she'd not yet worked herself free of their cultish thinking. Then again, it had taken him witnessing a murder of a clanswoman to realize just how terrible life would be if he remained. Leaving aside they never would have seen him as anything but 'a woman living as a man,' which was already unbearable, all their talk of killing for the greater good, removing those who were hurting the world, was lies. Killing was killing, and good was often a matter of perspective.

Nearly every kingdom in Harken was happy to be a part of the empire. But ask most Tricemorien citizens and they'd be happy to regale the listener with tales of the Battle of Korron; the Massacre of the Nine; the Pyre of the Lost City. No one could be forced to join the empire, that was one of its oldest laws, though it hadn't come soon enough to prevent some of Harken's earliest crimes. Tricemore hadn't exactly joined with ringing enthusiasm, and every now and then it seemed like they might rebel and join Cartha.

Kin del Kar got along with Harken now, but they had plenty of stories of empire brutality of their own to tell.

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