Outcasts: Short Stories by Nick Wisseman

Author:Nick Wisseman [Wisseman, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, fantasy, short story, science fiction, historical fantasy, speculative, paranormal mystery

…The young man fingers the bone bead around his neck, nods at another of the soldiers—who looks equally tense—and runs.

Past the other five soldiers, onto the stage, and up behind the old man as the scene lurches forward.

The crowd’s noise changes from adulation to alarm, and the old man begins to turn, his white cloak billowing around him in a slow arc. Just as the young man closes with him, something flashes on the old man’s chest. Something…golden. And round…

…The ring.

Aliah gasped as loud as she’d grunted moments earlier, her sight refocusing on the here and now of the bustling Field Museum. Philip had found the ring Pausanias slapped down in front of his king’s door…Found it and kept it. Around his neck, on a chain eerily similar to the one worn by his former lover. Pausanias had seen it as the old man turned…and still gone through with the assassination.

She took a deep breath and breathed another question, unsure if it needed to be voiced aloud, but unwilling to acknowledge a mental connection with the splinter if she could help it. “Am I…am I supposed to find the ring?”

The splinter wiggled once—in a gross parody of a nod—and then plunged back into her skin.

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