Chill by Elizabeth Berg

Author:Elizabeth Berg [Berg, Elizabeth]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-04-25T07:00:00+00:00

Asrafil enfolded Arianrhod in the borders of his colony, and they fell into the bosom of the Enemy again. Charity, its shortened blade more suited to her height now, lay across her back in the fittings Asrafil had constructed for it. It felt strange there—unpresent, empty, neutral, still, and waiting to be filled.

Hungry, if she allowed herself to anthropomorphize so far. She kept wanting to touch it to reassure herself it was really there, or really gone.

“We are still followed,” Asrafil said softly, inside her as if reluctant to disturb her train of thought.

“From Engineering?” Arianrhod asked. “Our path should lead them down through the lift to the Broken Holdes.”

“It is as you arranged,” he agreed. “Benedick is determined, and he has found an ally. Young Chelsea Conn is with him on the hunt.”

Arianrhod grimaced, feeling her frozen cheeks crack in the cold. Chelsea should have died usefully in the plague, and having survived that, it seemed a shame to kill her now.

But pity had no place in the world Arianrhod had been raised to. “If they’re in the shaft,” she said, “I left them an enemy there.”

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