Rogue Seers: A Fated Mates, Enemies to Lovers, Psychic Warfare and Apocalyptic Romance (Bridge and Sword Book 3) by JC Andrijeski

Author:JC Andrijeski [Andrijeski, JC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2022-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Trade

I curled my hands into fists, clenching them tightly at my sides.

It didn’t help. My fingers were shaking.

My stomach roiled, bringing up a surge of bile. I realized I was sweating, nearly in a full-blown fear-panic reaction, although I knew neither of those things were precisely what I was feeling.

Eyes followed our small party as we crossed the second of two wide courtyards. Faces turned towards us, but I only saw them in a blur. Confusion, curiosity. Concern. A few I saw looked downright afraid.

I didn’t know if that fear was for me, but I suspected not.

The fact that Syrimne d’Gaos had just walked through the front door of their City’s walls, and now sat drinking tea with the head of the Lao Hu, likely worried them a lot more than anything to do with me.

“You are wrong about that,” Balidor murmured in his accented English. “Your presence here means something to them. Neither the humans nor the seers will be happy to see you go.”

I gave a low snort, more nerves than humor. “Voi Pai might be.”

“Well. Maybe her.”

I glanced up at him, meeting his gray eyes.

“Are you still trying to talk me out of this, ‘Dori?” I said.

He shrugged with one hand, a vague tension around his mouth. He looked away from me, facing forward, but I saw that tension turn into something else.

“You have options, Bridge Alyson,” he said. “You are a holy figure here, just as you are in our part of the world. There is a reason they let us take refuge here, when no one else from our clans would have been extended such an honor.”

Glancing at me as we walked, he touched my fingers briefly with his, in a way that would seem accidental, were anyone watching.

“It is not too late to change your mind,” he said, softer. “Even he could not get out of here with you,” he murmured. “…Not unless they allowed it.”

That time, it was me who avoided his eyes.

We’d already had our real goodbyes, in my bedroom in the Imperial Residence.

He’d come in to tell me that Voi Pai was, at that very moment, talking to Revik. He further relayed that, so far at least, Revik had asked only for me, not for Balidor himself, or for any of the others. While I was getting dressed, Balidor proceeded to tell me that Revik had walked right up to the front gate. Alone.

According to Balidor, that was beyond unheard of.

In fact, from Balidor’s reaction, I gathered it was downright foolhardy, even for Syrimne d’Gaos. Balidor even asked me if it were possible Revik had turned suicidal.

Remembering that now, I clenched my hands harder.

We walked through several more gates.

Eventually, we passed into a part of the City I hadn’t yet seen.

I walked with the others through an arched doorway leading through an enormous gate guarded by seers in black sashes. Humans in ceremonial garb stood at attention, bowing as we passed. I heard murmured prayers as they made the sign of the Bridge with their hands.

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