Trio of Sorcery by Mercedes Lackey

Author:Mercedes Lackey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2010-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

Nathan had been correct. She did know him the moment she saw him. There were just not that many people in Tulsa whose faces practically shouted, “Navaho.” In fact, she would venture to say that there weren’t any other Dineh within the city limits. The desert-weathered skin was part of it, but to the discerning eye, there was a Dineh look; she often thought that the Dineh were not unlike the land they lived in; their faces looked like wind-carved sandstone.

He was obviously looking for her as well, and waved as soon as she got through the door. If he was annoyed or disappointed that she’d brought David along, he didn’t show it. They slid into the booth on the opposite side from him. There was nothing in front of him but coffee; she took the cue and ordered the same. Since it wasn’t more than three, and the eatery was practically empty, and since the little teenage waitress clearly would much rather have been discussing her latest boyfriend with the girl in the other section, they didn’t even get dirty looks for so minimal an order.

Begay looked woeful. “This is gonna sound bad,” he said. “But…I want you to follow my gal. My ex-gal. That’s why I didn’t want to talk over the phone.”

Jennie blinked slowly. “You’re correct. It does sound bad. You do know this state has stalker laws, right?”

He nodded. “And I could tell you that this isn’t what it looks like, and you wouldn’t believe me.”

“We wouldn’t disbelieve you, either,” David pointed out, his tone carefully neutral. “It’s not our job to believe you. It’s our job to do what you hire us to do—so long as we don’t break the law doing it and so long as you don’t use what we give you to break the law afterwards. Has she got a restraining order against you? We’ll find out if she does, you know.”

“No. No, nothing like that.” Begay turned his cup around and around in his hands, staring down at the black surface of the coffee. “I guess I should start at the beginning,” he said, his voice heavy with reluctance. “It started in Albuquerque. Caro—Caroline—is a jeweler, She wanted to learn traditional Dineh silversmithing and my brother gives classes. That’s how we met—at my brother’s. We hit it off right away, and then we did more than just hit it off. I’m a welder so I can work anywhere, and when she moved back home to Miami, I came along too. Things were good. I mean, at least I thought things were good. I’m a rez boy, pretty solid in the Good Red Road. She’s Chickasaw, but she hadn’t paid—I mean she’d never been into—” His heavily tanned skin flushed a dark red.

“Pretty assimilated,” David said shrewdly, and Begay nodded.

“She kinda liked that I had a foot in both worlds,” he continued. “She saw how I didn’t have to be assimilated to do all right in the world. Went to a couple of gatherings with me, couple ceremonies while we were still in Albuquerque.

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