(eng) Mercedes Lackey - Hunter 02 by Elite

Author:Elite [Elite]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I could tell by the look in Bya’s eyes when I brought the pack over for the sewer Hunt that he had some sort of message for me. There was that knowing look he got. The way he looked right at me and held my eyes for a good long moment before nodding slightly.

Urgent? I asked.

No, he replied. He yawned casually, as we all formed up in our usual order. I will give it to you some place where there is no distant eye.

By “distant eye,” he meant a cam, of course, and it would not be too terribly hard to avoid them down here. Cams were placed farther apart in the storm sewers under the Hub than they were out where the regular Hunters patrolled. Before things started getting weird, this part of the storm sewer network was supposed to be safe, so you wouldn’t need full coverage. Hunters hadn’t come down here, only Apex police and maintenance workers.

This tunnel was in another section of the storm sewers where we hadn’t been before—but it was going to end up very near where we’d found that dead Psimon. I wondered if there would be anything at that site left to investigate.

There might be. If magic had had anything to do with the Psimon’s death, there might still be traces of it about. Unless PsiCorps had brought a magician down here to get rid of such traces.

“Stupid,” I said aloud, chiding myself. Of course they would. I wasn’t thinking. There wouldn’t be anything there; I wasn’t dealing with feral Folk, or amateurs. PsiCorps was nothing if not thorough. And I had better keep my mind on Hunting and not off on some other tangents that had nothing to do with Hunting, because a Hunter with a wandering mind generally doesn’t get a second chance to make that kind of mistake.

There wasn’t a trace of moisture down here today, and it wasn’t even all that humid. There wasn’t a trace of scent either, and the ’crete of the tunnel was so clean it looked scoured. In fact…I noticed as I looked more closely, the ’crete had been scoured, most likely by stuff carried down here in the storm. I wondered if we were going to get another day of Hunting for next to nothing.

We don’t mind, Myrrdhin told me. When you get calls to go outside the Great Fences, we eat like kings.

Now I wondered if Myrrdhin and Gwalchmai had talked as much to Ace as they did to me. “Great Fences.” Well, that is as good a way of describing the Barriers as any.

I was glad Myrrdhin had told me that. I worried about my Hounds, worried that so big a pack would never quite get enough manna to eat. I guess I needn’t have worried.

“Myrrdhin,” I asked as we began our long walk, “did you talk much to Ace?”

He looked back over his shoulder at me. No, he replied, and I got the faint hint of…sadness? No, he gave orders, and we obeyed.

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