The Unworthy and The Damned by Billy Wong

Author:Billy Wong [Wong, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

The next morning Celia and Edge observed the slum shack from a store rooftop they had paid some coin to use, while Lina caught up with people she knew around town. They had brought along wraps from the vendor, which they knew now not to eat all at once in hopes of avoiding digestive issues. Angelo's brother Hector left his house shortly before noon, and to her surprise Edge suggested, "Think we should go down there and follow him?"

"That quickly? I thought you weren't too thrilled about doing this."

"I wasn't, but now that we're here I might as well go all in." He winked. "Might be the old assassin in me speaking. Besides, he could be going to deliver a message to Angelo."

They went downstairs and tailed him from a distance for a while until they saw him join a group of raggedly dressed men gathered in front of a construction site. "Laborers?" Celia said. "It seems like he's going to work."

"Maybe we should go take a look in his house and see we find anything suspicious there."

She considered it. "We don't know if he'll actually work or is just trying to get work. Wouldn't be better to see how much time it takes for him to come back, and if it's long enough try going in tomorrow?"

"That's not a bad plan either. I just like living on the edge."

"Lame joke."

He shrugged. "I also figured if we wrap this up quickly, it'll give Lina less time to be worried. It's not like if we get caught, he'll likely report us or be too much of a threat."

"But if he becomes aware of us and manages to flee, that could make catching his brother—in the event he's alive and our Necromancer—more difficult. What evidence do you think we might find in his house, by the way?"

"I was picturing ingredients for necromancy, which would indicate his brother visits now and then. But if we found a relatively new urn of ashes or something, that could be proof of the opposite."

"Ashes wouldn't necessarily be Angelo's. I see what you're getting at, though." She began to eat the second half of her wrap, her stomach feeling settled enough. It wasn't exactly hot anymore, but the warm air outside hadn't been too hard on it. "I say we should still wait and just watch at least for today. Better to err on the side of caution than rush into things."

The pair returned to the roof. They found that Hector returned to his house about an hour after sundown, which gave them plenty of leeway assuming he would behave similarly tomorrow. They didn't know if he had regular employment though, which made his schedule uncertain. When they met Lina in the inn—she hadn't asked to stay with the marquis, whether not to disturb him or because she wanted to avoid stirring up old memories at the manor—she told them she'd had a great day meeting old friends. Celia hoped she was being honest, and not trying to put on a happy face for them.

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