Goblin Reign 03: Goblin Rogue by Gerhard Gehrke

Author:Gerhard Gehrke [Gehrke, Gerhard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 2_read, Funtasy_VariousAuthors, -new
ISBN: 9781081591557
Google: ToOwxwEACAAJ
Amazon: 1081591552
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-07-19T12:00:00+00:00

Even at night, the black statue was impossible to miss, as it was illuminated with a circle of hanging brass lanterns and stood in the center of the boulevard that ran along the docks. It was a giant figure carved of ebony stone holding a book and a sword. The statue’s face was pensive, but the thin face and hard eyes were those of the man Spicy had encountered on the roof of the keep.

Burning lamps illuminated the street here.

Spicy tried to dismiss the panic he was feeling and ignore the stitch in his side as he jogged past the statue.

The city was large and strange, true, but the layout wasn’t without some logic. From the drunk’s comments, the archduke had his own dock nearby. Several merchants drove horse-drawn carts through the gloomy streets. The shadows held their own forms of traffic and Spicy decided it was better to stay in the light.

Only one nearby dock was prominently lit. The boat tied sidelong to the pier was much larger than the Sin Nombre or any of the other vessels Spicy had encountered. Spicy crept closer to get a better look.

At least a dozen sailors were loading the boat.

A whistle sounded. A line of red capes came marching down the street, led by an officer. He blew his whistle a second time and the traffic ahead of them cleared the way. They filed to the dock, where one of the archduke’s sons met them. Soon they were all boarding. The boat had a tall mast and room for at least ten oars on either side.

If the archduke was preparing to leave, it meant he had a destination in mind. He had been asking about the dragon. Without Alma to lead him, did he possess enough information to find the mud village? He claimed he knew Bird’s Landing. But finding the village would still require him to search the hills and swamp, unless the people of Bird’s Landing were interrogated.

All of that would take time.

Then he felt his stomach drop as he saw Blades. He wasn’t bound, but one of the sons had him by the arm and was leading him out onto the dock and then to the boat.

With Blades in hand, the archduke wouldn’t need Alma to guide him to his dragon. Rime and the children would be captured or killed. The archduke’s obsession matched or exceeded Lord’s. The ruler of Pinnacle wasn’t content with any recipe for an explosive.

Spicy retreated from the dock. He had to get back to the Sin Nombre. Coming to Pinnacle had been a giant mistake. Whatever dragon secrets had slipped through his fingers were nothing compared to what was about to happen.

The archduke was heading for the delta and bringing enough men and weapons to take Fath and everything in his library away.

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