Emissary- Of Gods and Monsters by Silas Post

Author:Silas Post [Post, Silas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-03T22:00:00+00:00

14

Of the dozen sticky buns I had collected in the city, Rikki ate more than half. Jarah, however, ate only one. She picked it apart slowly with her hands and fed herself tiny bites while her eyes stayed trained on the nearby trees.

“He entered the very forest that shades our path to the castle, did he not?” I asked, pulling on my new leathers and transferring my pockets’ contents from old pant to new.

“Oh yes,” Jarah replied. Her boots fit her well, covering her shins in the front and her calves in the rear. She laced them tight.

“Perhaps the harpies will save us the trouble of a chance encounter,” I said.

“I should hope not,” Jarah said. “I have played our last confrontation in my mind over and over. He made me feel weak and small. I would return that favor doubly.”

“You’re not the pacifist you were some days ago,” I said.

“I believe in peace,” she said, standing to test her new boots before we set off toward the forest. “I believe all men — be they cyclops, beast, human, or otherwise — are capable of rational intercourse. That said, I was naïve when I got here. The human world is very different from Okkor’s Isle. It is not universally civil.

“I am learning that physicality is a form of language used to demand safety and respect, and it is the only fluent tongue for men like Triskin Flatts. I will not rest until he and I have had a ‘conversation’ he will understand.”

“Hear, hear,” I said, hastening to keep up with her long stride. “Whether lashed by tongue or fist, let us berate him all the same.”

Rikki finished off the last of her meal, walking with the final pastry speared upon her new dagger to protect her gloves from a slick of dense icing. The dagger’s sheath hung from a belt loop at her hip and she stowed that blade back in its holster once she licked its surface clean.

“Your bag is gone,” Rikki said, taking the lead on our way into the forest that birthed her.

“Yet, something else is not,” I said.

She cocked her head to the side and grinned. “You have more delicious treats? Where do you hide them without a bag?”

“Who said I hid anything?” I asked, a non-response that piqued her attention further.

“Tell me!” she said, playfully grabbing at my trousers. She groped at my thighs and my rear as I walked along ignoring her search. She took to patting my chest and back with hurried hands too focused on the prospect of gluttony reprised to consider other options.

She even took to mussing my hair in her vain search for clues, but finally her fingers slipped into my pocket and grazed against the cool metallic chain that held Redelia’s gem.

“You didn’t sell it?” she asked, pulling the amulet loose.

“I couldn’t sell it,” I said, taking it back and unclasping it while Rikki pulled her long auburn hair away from her neck. “Not when the only rightful carrier of a gem so resplendent is a woman whose own resplendence surpasses it.

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