Evan Burl and the Falling by Justin Blaney

Author:Justin Blaney [Blaney, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Inkliss
Published: 2012-08-19T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Cevo

Thursday

10:01 pm

24 hours, 48 minutes until the Falling

Thirteen hours later, far too many of El Qir's citizens were still sobbing. I admit, I was disappointed in how they took the news of their new calling. I expected some to be upset, they were to be imprisoned inside the pavilion for the foreseeable future after all. But, there life had no purpose before. Didn't they see how much better it was to be helping me on my quest to find Evan Burl?

I sighed, realizing I should have known better. I've seen them sleeping with the pigs along the street. They weren't capable of understanding how much I was giving them.

After spending the day ensuring work was started properly in the pavilion, I could finally turn my attention to Hagnus. I sat in a high-back leather studded chair on one side of a stone table with a beveled glass top. Hagnus was strapped at the wrists and ankles to an identical chair on the other side of the table. We were in my rack room, with 11 racks of elk and bear and elephant hanging from the towering dark paneled walls. It was the same room that I had been waiting two days earlier, before my meeting with the leaders of El Qir.

Behind me was the empty plaque, with Evan Burl's name on it. I caught Hagnus staring at it and wondered why she wanted to talk to me so badly. She tried to get an audience with me before the execution. When that failed, she committed a crime in order to be selected as a Jura, knowing I would realize what she was when she wasn't killed. When she saw I was going to kill her on the spot, she said the only words that would stop me. She must have heard I was looking for Evan Burl and hoped I was desperate enough for information that she could buy time with his name.

It all came back to the same thing: she wanted terribly to get in the same room with me.

I knew her game; I just didn't know why she was playing it yet.

"Aren't you going to ask me?" she said, her voice quivering.

"Soon." I had only spent a few minutes with Hagnus, I was still sizing her up. More can be learned from the eyes than from the mouth—or maybe it's just that I prefer not to have to listen to people talk. I think I can count on my fingers the number of times someone has said something that I wanted to hear. Ironically, this could turn out to be one of those times.

What I'd learned so far was that Hagnus was good at lying—at least she thought she was. I'm sure she had plenty of practice hiding what she was. This was why I waited. I wasn't ready to begin the interrogation because I knew she would just lie. I had to get her ready to tell the truth.

She had to realize it was unlikely the evening would end well for her.

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