Silk and Steel #2: Iron & Fire by Ariana Nash & Pippa DaCosta

Author:Ariana Nash & Pippa DaCosta [Nash, Ariana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crazy Ace Publishing
Published: 2019-04-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Eroan

Eroan led Lysander by his roped wrists through the lines of gathered elves. They parted ahead of him and closed in behind, too afraid to get close, but too curious not to see the dragon prince. A few whispers hissed between them, but their words were lost against the sound of flickering torches. Most were silent, which felt worse.

Eroan was to take Lysander to the food-store and tie him up inside, as agreed with the elders. With every step, he prayed to Alumn that his people would be understanding, that they would not judge this lost prince for his name alone but by his selfless deeds. But so many he passed had vengeance in their eyes. And his assassin brothers and sisters, watching on from the shadows, would be the hardest of all to convince.

Once inside the store, Eroan tied just one of Lysander’s wrists to a structural floor-to-ceiling beam and pulled off the bag.

Lysander wet his lips and ran his glassy gaze over Eroan, darting it to the assassins behind him. The prince’s jaw hardened and Eroan imagined what he saw on the elves’ faces was the same lust for vengeance Eroan had recognized on the walk in.

Lysander pulled on the rope and looked questioningly back at Eroan. “I trust you.”

Eroan swallowed. He had made costly mistakes before and prayed this would not be another. “This is temporary.”

Lysander’s attention wandered to the neat pile of fresh clothes, bucket of clean water and another bucket for Lysander to relieve himself in. The food-store wasn’t a windowless tower dungeon and the single rope wasn’t a pair of wrist shackles, and yet the sickening wrongness Eroan had felt on the walk in came down hard on him now. Just temporary.

Turning, he caught the eye of the two guards and nodded. He knew them well, as he knew most of Cheen’s Order. They were more than capable of dispatching one restrained dragon before he could shift. A flung dagger to the throat would do it. “He is a guest and should be treated well. This is a formality.”

They nodded, eyes forward, faces blank.

Eroan had to convince his people of Lysander’s loyalty, and fast. Lysander’s life depended on it.

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