Skulduggery 5: Building a Criminal Empire (Skuduggery) by Logan Jacobs

Author:Logan Jacobs [Jacobs, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-10T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

I raced back toward the Entertainment District, and with every step I took, I worried that I might already be too late.

As soon as I had reached the warehouse distillery with Dar, Skam and Selius had hurried us inside and told us what they knew. They hadn’t been aware that the guildmaster had come to the city, but Selius had seen the columns of torch-wielding elven guards as they marched through the dwarven district toward the Entertainment District, and he’d seen the terrifying night elf woman in the middle of all the armed men.

The halfling kid might never have completed his training in the Thief’s Guild, but he had learned enough to know that with that many elven guards, something had to be going on, so he followed them from a safe distance until they crossed into the Entertainment District.

As soon as they crossed over the border between districts, the elven woman started to direct her guards to set fires at random.

Selius had followed her just long enough to see her guards set fire to a person, and then he had fled back toward the warehouse to tell Skam. The moment Dar and I showed up, the halfling kid hadn’t been able to warn us fast enough, and my first thought had been for Cimarra and Penny.

I told Dar to stay at the warehouse with Skam and Selius in case the guildmaster or any of her goons tried something in the dwarven district, too, and then in spite of Dar’s protests, I took off back toward the theatre. I didn’t know what the guildmaster had planned, but the fact that she’d already started setting fires to both places and people meant that my two women were in danger.

I used my thief’s instincts to stay unseen as I raced through the Entertainment District, and even when I started to pass buildings whose flames now reached high up into the night sky, I forced myself to ignore them and continue forward.

When I spotted the front of the theatre up ahead, the guildmaster and her goons were nowhere in sight, and at first, I thought the theatre had been spared. Cimarra’s balcony was still intact over the main entrance of the theatre, and I wanted to jump up and climb my way inside to make sure both women were unhurt.

As I came closer to the theatre, I saw the smoke before I saw the flames, and I realized that I had been wrong.

The elephant stables were on fire.

My heart pounded in my chest as I looked at the scene before me. The fire must have instantly swept through the stables thanks to all the old straw inside, and the flames had grown powerful enough that they had jumped across the gap between the stables and the back of the theatre, so now the back half of the theatre was on fire, too.

Cimarra’s room was at the front of the theatre and so was the main stage, but most of the performers’ living quarters were closer to the back, just like the Count’s office was.

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