Blades Of Illusion: Crown Service #2 by Terah Edun

Author:Terah Edun [Edun, Terah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Magic
Published: 2014-10-18T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Sara Fairchild didn’t have very much else to say to the man, and he soon wandered off with a troubled look on his face. She stood with her face to the wind and closed her eyes to everything. Closed to the world. Closed to the vision in front of her. Closed to the lies. Closed to the memories. But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t keep all of her memories from floating to the surface like dead fish at high tide.

A slight smile spread across her face as she remembered standing on the steps of the stone platforms that dotted the city streets of Sandrin. There were six such platforms, each centrally located in the six major districts—north, west, east, south, high-tide territory, and the imperial grounds. At the intersections of the major thoroughfares for each of the six was the newsreader’s platform. And every single day without fail, until she had been forced to call upon the head fisherman’s office for a job, she’d washed her face, put on fresh clothes, and headed out the door in the early morning in order to hear the newsreader speak his news. Much like a town crier for smaller locales, the newsreader dispersed the most important announcements from the guilds, councils, and the imperial courts at dawn.

Gathering herself, Sara opened her eyes and joined the line of disembarking men and woman to go down the gangplank to her new home.

“And every day,” Sara said while staring dully at the back of the head of the soldier who stood one place in front of her as they descended the gangplank, “that whey-faced turd of a newsreader crowed that the Kades were dirty brigands. Sure to lose. Couldn’t possibly stand up against the might of the imperial forces.”

Her hand curled into a fist at the very thought. An enemy on the run was very different from what she saw here. The Kade fortress lay like a jet-black mountain which had risen from the earth, complete with spires and platforms. It was an impenetrable refuge that housed an innumerable host of men, all fighting for the Kade cause.

“I wonder if they even know how many Kades they’re fighting or what it will truly take to defeat them. Because as of now they all look as clueless as chickens in a barnyard,” Sara wondered aloud as the line moved forward, and she shuffled down the gangplank like an obedient ant. She could only look to the left and right or straight at the back of the dirty unkempt hair in front of her.

I doubt I look much better, Sara thought wryly, all the while resisting the urge to put a finger in her own hair, which she was sure was a nest of dirt, leaves, and more dirt. It made her shudder to think about it. She may not have been a girl who loved the pretty dresses or jewelry that most well-born girls seemed to adore, but she was absolutely fastidious in keeping her body clean and her appearance well-tended.

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