A Misplaced Child by Heather Michelle

Author:Heather Michelle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heather Michelle

Chapter Twenty-Three

While life didn’t change completely for the friends, the journeys they took together were no longer full of mischief as Callie, wearing the baron’s colors, couldn’t get into any trouble and risk her position in the house. Instead Callie found other ways to have fun that didn’t involve trouble. One afternoon they were in the Opulent District delivering a message to the silver guild. They took the long way back to the baron’s house, wandering through the markets. Callie never tired of looking at all of the beautiful and fine things hanging in the market where anyone could steal them. In Odure anything fine was hidden, and the markets only openly sold low-quality merchandise to low-quality people.

The Opulent market was rich. Rich in color, scents, sounds, people. Elodie had spent a good amount of time in this market, purchasing herbs and supplies for her work with Gedas, venturing out on the pages’ days off to buy treats and be free of the castle, but now Elodie had spent more time on the outer edges of the city she saw the Opulent market with new eyes. Strong stable stalls lined the cobblestone paved streets, scarves dyed with a million colors, their fabric so fine and light they billowed out in the air created by people passing by, tunics and jackets with fine embroidery, worked in gold thread, others with symbols for health and life worked into the patterns. Even the seagulls in the Opulent District were cleaner and better fed than those that flocked in Odure. It was baffling how one city could hold such different worlds, separated by only a few streets and walls.

They wandered down the fabric sellers’ road, Callie talking in the accent of someone from Skuna as she told Elodie in extreme detail of the beautiful gown she planned to wear to the next palace function. Elodie had to cover her mouth to try not to burst out laughing as she saw a woman hanging dresses in her shop stare at Callie in absolute confusion at the girl’s words. Callie did in fact sound like she was some great princess or courtier from Skuna in the market looking for accessories to purchase. She carried herself with her head high and shoulders back with a posture Elodie’s etiquette teachers had drilled into her. But most of all, the look in Callie’s eyes was not of one who had ever lived in a gutter, it was of a girl who would someday be a woman and who knew with absolute confidence who she was and who she was meant to be. Elodie wished she could fake confidence like that for even a second.

When they reached the end of the street, Callie let her façade drop.

“Oo, do you smell that? Let’s get sweet rolls!” Callie darted away, once again a little girl still adjusting to having pocket money for the first time in her life.

Elodie chased after Callie as she followed her nose to a baker’s stand. It was

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