City of Corpses: The Dark Avenger's Sidekick Book Two (Moth & Cobweb 5) by John C. Wright

Author:John C. Wright [Wright, John C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven: The Red Knight

1. Hectic Evening

Yumiko was far less buoyant the next day.

Elfine was still missing. Her beloved, the boy named Tom, was still missing or dead. Her mother was still dead and unavenged.

As she stood naked in the bathroom, doing her hair and make-up before donning her Cobbler Girl outfit, and staring with unsmiling eyes at a mirror which might have been one-way glass, she fretted about the hundred little clues she had left behind on her spree. Her cover had become too fragile. A single conversation with Blud, or any of her roommates, about who had been wandering about at night could expose her, or a hidden camera, or a haunted pumpkin, or some magical watchman whose existence she could not even begin to guess.

But she still held to a thin thread of hope. The two cages marked by her tracers would eventually be shipped, one to the City of Corpses and the other to LIs, whatever that was. She had read the invoices and knew when the next shipment was due to arrive: this Wednesday. Three more days after that, it would go out. It should not be that hard to discover when a fleet of trucks was parked out back.

So she expected a hand to fall on her shoulder that day, or the next, and it did not. Perhaps this was because things became hectic then.

At first she thought this was become the shipment was due tomorrow. But she realized something else was in the air.

Some of the regular staff were absent, running errands, and no one seemed to have time to tell Yumiko what was happening. The managers were ordering everything put in order and double-checked. The janitors were doing a thorough cleaning. Wilcolac Cobweb emerged from his office and was going over the stock, talking with the bartenders, the chef, and the kitchen staff. VIP tables were set up on the lounge floor, separated from the rest by a cordon of velvet ropes.

Yumiko, wary of attracting attention, was unwilling to show any curiosity, but that night, when they were working tables before the first show, Iele the Romanian rolled her eyes at Yumiko and tossed her head with a snort. Clearly, the girl wanted to gossip: Yumiko stepped with her into the short corridor connecting the kitchen to the lounge.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.