The Princess Will Save You by Sarah Henning

Author:Sarah Henning [Henning, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250237422
Google: bzevyAEACAAJ
Amazon: 1250237424
Publisher: Tor Teen
Published: 2020-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

28

“THEY took everything,” Dunixi bellowed, kicking at the dirt. It didn’t get him anything except for a coughing fit as dust wafted up in a fine, choking cloud. The pirates were spread around the remains of their camp, cataloging it all—what was missing, what was damaged, what was miraculously unharmed.

“Not everything. My saddlebag is still here,” Urtzi announced, holding his bag aloft from his side of the snuffed-out fire.

“My everything and her everything, you moron,” the leader spat, gesturing to Ula, who was crouched over where her belongings had been. All of it was missing, save for her beloved sword, plus her journal and pencil, which had slipped away in the struggle. Gone—her food, water, extra clothes. Dunixi had been relieved of his items as well. Smoke was nearly coming out of his ears. “Which amounts to more everything than your everything.”

Urtzi just stared at the Eritrian. “None of those words make sense put together, Dunixi.”

“Whatever. They took our stuff. And we weren’t even completely horrible to the stableboy.”

“Luca,” Ula snapped, emphasizing the boy’s name. Dunixi didn’t amend his statement. Just kicked the dirt with his other foot. When his temper tantrum was mostly complete, Ula spoke again. “They also saved us from certain death.”

“It wasn’t certain those asps would’ve bitten us,” Dunixi responded. “Though it is too bad about Ferri.” He gestured to where Urtzi’s palomino had once been. The horse had been so spooked during the fight that she ran off as the princess and stableboy escaped.

After a moment of silence, Ula continued. “Losing Ferri isn’t for the best, but I, for one, would not trade how things turned out for a chance to go back and repeat it and die of snakebite.”

“Me either,” Urtzi agreed, sauntering over to Ula and offering up his waterskin.

“Cowards.”

To Ula’s ears, Dunixi sounded like he meant it, and that was extremely annoying. She caught glances with Urtzi, who finally seemed to be chewing on the truth that he could fry up Dunixi’s intestines for breakfast, supper, or dinner.

Ula swallowed a gulp of water, set her eyes upon her leader, and took a deep, calming breath before trying to steer the conversation somewhere useful. In truth, it was high morning and they’d lost their bounty, and each second they argued or dwelled was a second lost in retrieving it. “Dunixi, what’s our plan now? Go after them?”

In the moment, they’d raced after Luca and his princess on foot, of course. The shock had slowed them down, and they were too far behind to catch Luca and Amarande by the time they mounted their horse and took off, but they’d been fast enough to see which direction they had gone—west.

The answer wasn’t an easy one. Dunixi plopped down in the dirt, forearms propped on his knees. He wasn’t ever one to admit he didn’t know anything, but when he was silent like this it was as good as an admission. After a minute, he finally spoke.

“If the princess was after him, our employer failed in his aim.

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