Shadowseer: Rome by Morgan Rice

Author:Morgan Rice [Rice, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Morgan Rice
Published: 2022-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

“So, what should our next steps be?”

Kaia wasn’t used to the inspector not simply deciding on a plan for what to do next.

In London, Paris, and Munich, the problem had never been with him not having a plan. It had been with him deciding it almost regardless of what Kaia felt. He’d always seemed to assume that he was in charge.

Yet now, he was asking for their opinions? Kaia found herself wondering what had brought about such a change in him as she looked around at Olivia and Aunt Keris, waiting to see if one of them would speak first.

Had the inspector finally realized that the world of the shadows was one where he was not an expert? Where Kaia’s talents meant that he had to listen? Or did it have more to do with the presence of her aunt, and the way the two of them seemed to look at one another when they thought Kaia and Olivia couldn’t see?

“There are still avenues to explore in the death of the priest,” Aunt Keris said. “I am coming around to the view that whoever killed him may have the relic, so solving the murder may ensure that we find it in time to stop the shadows.”

They started to make their way along one of Rome’s streets, where crowds of pedestrians and horses made the way hard going.

“Those avenues have to include the missing seminarian,” the inspector said. “Either he is in grave danger, or-”

“Or he had a hand in Father Silvio’s death,” Aunt Keris finished for him. “I agree. He is the one who could get close without raising suspicion most easily. His absence is suspicious, and it seems likely that he might have seen or found out about the relic.”

Kaia could hear the two of them starting to talk one another into it. The problem was the clue that she’d found back in the church.

“What about the notebook that Father Silvio left?” Kaia asked. “He says where he hid the relic.”

“In coded words.” Aunt Keris looked doubtful. “The place where the bravest sat as a rock, longest in Rome? Some notes about his antiquarian interests? It is not specific enough to get us anywhere.”

“Especially not if his killer made him give up the relic,” the inspector pointed out. The two of them seemed to be in concert on this.

Kaia looked over to Olivia, almost pleading with her eyes. If Em had been there, she would have backed Kaia up without hesitation. Or, more likely, plotted to run off and do what she wanted to do in spite of what the inspector and Aunt Keris thought.

Olivia, at least, seemed to understand how badly Kaia needed to do this.

“If I understand it correctly, we cannot afford to waste time,” she said. “If we pursue one approach to the exclusion of the other, there is a risk that we lose the relic either way. Those hunting for it might find it before we get to wherever Father Silvio hid it, if it is still there.

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