War of the Posers by Eric Ugland

Author:Eric Ugland [Ugland, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B084DW7W4M
Publisher: Air Quotes Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2020-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Three

It was not a short walk up the stairs. The The Faydens lived very, very deep underground. I wondered if they knew about the ruins. Was that something they would even care about? The door dumped me out into Old Town, only about six blocks from home. The night had gotten significantly colder, with a wicked wind blowing down off the mountains from the north. The rain had stopped, but it was definitely coming again in the near future. I made a mental note to find a warmer cloak.

I felt like I’d already blown a lot of the night, so I took a carriage up to the nicest part of the city, got dropped off a few blocks away from Valamir’s palatial estate, and only did the last bit on foot.

From the outside, it looked like nothing had changed since my last visit. Part of me hoped that was the case, because the first two times I’d broken into the home of arguably the most powerful man in the Empire, it had been shockingly easy.

I watched the front guards stamp their feet and rub their arms in the cold. they hadn’t made the shift to full winter gear yet. Which was lucky for me, since they weren’t as observant, paying too much attention to themselves. I walked around the outside walls, and took in the interior workings. Which were nil. No guards walked the grounds. Which was a dead giveaway that something else was up. That was just too ridiculous.

I kept walking, doing a quick loop around another block only to come back and post up against a wall kitty corner to the Valamir estate.

I wanted to test a theory.

I pulled some of my mana together, and sent it running around my body, flushing out my channels and making sure everything was fresh and clean, arcanely speaking. Then, I tossed a small illusion into Valamir’s estate, of a figure slipping through the fence and running across the grounds.

My illusory figure made it about fifty feet through the lush grass of the grounds before guards swarmed out of their hidey spots, converging and very quickly discovering that there was nothing there.

Shouts sounded, and there men and women headed through the gates in search of the person who’d been casting magic in the direction of Lord Valamir.

I turned and walked about twenty feet away from the corner before jumping up and grabbing the top of a wall, pulling myself up and over just as the thundering footsteps of approaching guards filled the streets. I took just enough of a glance around to know that I was tucked into the shadows at the far end of some rich family’s garden. Guards ran past on the other side of the wall. The house behind me remained quiet, and, from the sound of it, the guards outside seemed to be doing at least a moderate job of keeping things hushed.

There were apples in the trees around me, and I was very tempted to grab one.

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