Ravage the Dark: 2 (Scavenge the Stars) by Tara Sim

Author:Tara Sim [Sim, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2021-03-08T18:30:00+00:00

Jasper went to the harbor and came back looking grim.

“It’s there all right,” he said. “The Silver Star. Are you sure she’s on that particular ship? It’s been a few years.”

“Captains aren’t in the habit of trading debtors to different ships. She has to be on it still.”

“Can we really trust Basque’s notes?”

“It was in code, wasn’t it?” Liesl snapped. “Why would it be in code unless he wanted to keep the information to himself?”

Jasper wisely didn’t question her again. Liesl was nervous enough as it was, double- and triple-checking the decoded notes, pacing around the apartment, barely eating anything.

Cayo was nervous, too, but for a different reason. With the high-stakes game coming up, he was visibly more tense and had taken to rolling niera coins across his knuckles. Liesl had insisted he go to work at Florimond’s as usual rather than join them.

“I don’t want your antsy fingers getting us into trouble,” she said. As if she were one to talk.

“Fine,” Cayo had muttered. “But, um… good luck.” He’d glanced at Amaya, extending it to her as well. “I hope you find her.”

They still hadn’t told Liesl about the high-stakes game. The girl was too focused on Adrienne to concentrate on anything else. But the more nervous Cayo grew, the more Amaya did as well.

Which was why, when they found themselves on the roof of an inn along the harbor, Liesl couldn’t help but notice Amaya’s fidgeting.

“What is it?” Liesl whispered. The moon was climbing toward its apex above them, the sky a dark swath of fabric. The street at their backs emanated a warm, welcoming light, but the docks ahead were cloaked in shadow broken only by the occasional lantern.

“Nothing,” Amaya whispered back. “Just… reliving bad memories.”

Which was true enough. The thought of stepping foot on another debtor ship made her insides writhe, and she was ashamed by the fear that Captain Zharo could instill in her even when the man was dead. It was that fear that made her wonder if it were possible to free all the debtors, not just Adrienne, to spare them from a similar fate.

She also couldn’t help but remember another confrontation at the docks. Boon gazing at her somberly across the deck of his stolen ship, then the crash of his blade against hers.

Did you kill my father?

In a sense, I suppose I did.

Amaya closed her eyes, driving his face, his words away from her mind as she twisted the jade ring on her finger. She needed to concentrate if they were going to pull this off.

Deadshot crouched at the lip of the roof, watching the alley below. Jasper had a short spyglass affixed to his eye as he watched the docks. Amaya had asked if they should enlist Remy’s assistance, but Liesl had been against it.

“He’s been tremendous help, but we can’t keep putting him in these positions,” the girl had said. “Not when his loyalty lies elsewhere.”

“His loyalty lies with us,” Amaya had argued. “The navy just gave him a home and structure that he needed.

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