Shadow Blessed (The Shadow Accords Book 1) by D.K. Holmberg

Author:D.K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2016-09-01T06:00:00+00:00

13

Days passed uneventfully. As much as Carth wanted to find Jhon and discover what he might know about her family, she feared what she might learn. What would she say if she learned that her father had been a thief of some sort? Realizing that he’d prepared her for it made her more concerned about the man he was, and in a way, she didn’t want to know the truth.

She wondered how she had not seen it before, but she hadn’t wanted to see it. Her father had been… well, he’d been the one person she’d looked up to. With him gone, she had no one.

With each day, she wandered the streets near the docks, hesitating to travel too far into the rest of the city. She didn’t need to go beyond the docks to grab enough coin to appease Vera, and with Stiv wandering through the streets, still intent to sell Vera’s sweetbreads, she preferred to keep an eye on him. He hadn’t tried any of Kel’s techniques, but she suspected that it was only a matter of time before he did, especially with as difficult as it would be to sell the breads.

Some days, Carth felt drawn to the herbalist shop. Most of the time, she stood outside, staring at the sign outside the door, standing off to the side and in the shadows, hiding as her father had taught her. The more she thought about it, the more it bothered her that she had no real trade. Staying with Vera, she might learn to run a kitchen and she might learn baking, but the only skill that offered her a way out was thieving, and that risked her safety more than anything. Had she taken the time to listen, and had she been willing to learn from her mother, she would have had another skill she could have leaned on.

It had been three days since she’d last visited the herbalist shop when she again found herself standing outside and in the shadows, watching a few people as they made their way in and then out of the shop. What did they buy? What powders or dried fruits or leaves did they come for? Was it for healing, as she suspected the older woman with the limping gait came to the herbalist for, or was it something else? Carth imagined that the young woman with the raven hair came to the herbalist for a love concoction. Her mother had scoffed at the idea that there were mixtures that would change emotion, but she had continued to mix powders specific to Carth and instructed her to take them each day.

As Carth waited, she pulled one of her mother’s books from her pockets and flipped through the pages. She might not be able to read any of the writing, but a few of the pages had pictures, diagrams with labels written in Ih, mostly of plants or leaves or fruits. An herbalist guidebook of sorts. When Carth had discovered this, she began to wonder if the old woman would be able to help translate it for her.

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