The Pariahs by David Adams

Author:David Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER IV

Kozog

“SO, I GUESS WE ARE breaking into your family home,” said Brea, for about the fifteenth time in as many minutes.

“Shut up.” Kozog groaned and peered through the iron fence, trying to put his earlier words out of his mind. No such luck.

“Aww, poor Kozzy is all mad because his mummy told him to break the law.” Brea deepened her voice, grunting and scratching under her arm. “Urgh. Me Kozog. Me no break into family home!” Her voice returned to normal. “That’s you. That’s what you sound like.”

He stared at her. “Are…you okay?”

“Yes, of course. I’m imitating you.”

“But I don’t sound anything like that.”

Brea put her hands on her hips, the way she usually did when she wanted to argue an annoying point. “Yes, you do.”

“No, I don’t.”

“Yes, you do.”

Kozog didn’t have the energy to argue with her. His chest hurt something fierce; he concealed the pain from Brea, but it came through in…frustration. “If you say so.” He gestured to the wall. “Let’s go.”

Brea climbed it as though it were the easiest thing in the world, practically walking up it like a spider, straddling it at the top. Kozog dug his fingers in, strained his muscles, and hoisted himself up—teetering at the top before falling head first, crashing onto the grass on the other side.

Brea seemed very amused atop the wall, stifling a giggle. She waggled her eyebrows, flipped off the edge and landed in a crouch beside him.

“Don’t say anything,” grumbled Kozog, climbing up to his feet. His chest wound stung, but he grit his teeth and kept his composure.

He did not want to appear weak in front of Brea again.

“I didn’t say a word,” said Brea, cracking her back and casting a curious eye towards the manor. Now they were inside its walls, the size and beauty of the garden seeming to give her pause. “You grew up here?”

“Not really,” said Kozog. “My family and I moved here a few years before I went to the church. The other place was much nicer.”

Brea swept a hand around the yard, at the topiaries and the manicured grass, to the water pond and the stone garden. “Nicer than this?”

Her question didn’t make sense. “Of course. That’s what I said.”

Brea’s eyes seemed like they would drop out of their sockets. She opened her mouth to speak, shook her head, and then closed her mouth, slipping across the grass towards the border hedge, making her way to the house.

Kozog ambled behind her. There was no sense in being stealthy just yet; he could never be as soft-footed as Brea could, even on his best day, but he tried to keep up, using the various bushes and trees for cover.

“Which way?” asked Brea, her voice low.

“The side will be easier,” he said. “If the Lords did secure the property, they would be unlikely to secure the servant’s quarters. We may be able to gain entrance that way.”

Another look of disapproval crossed Brea’s face but it vanished as quickly as it had appeared.

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