The Earl of Brass (The Ingenious Mechanical Devices, #1) by Kara Jorgensen

Author:Kara Jorgensen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: victorian, steampunk, victorian romance, automatons, historical fantasy, earl, nobleman, Historical romance, gaslamp
Publisher: Kara Jorgensen
Published: 2014-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty:

A Knight and his Squire

THE NOISE THAT AWOKE Hadley Fenice was like nothing she had ever experienced. It was a sound that traveled through the bedrock itself, climbing up the metal legs of her cot until it rattled her sleeping form. Within seconds, she was completely alert, but the noise had stopped and all that was left was the tinkling of debris raining down on their tent. Her wide eyes met Eilian’s as they leapt out of their beds and began getting dressed. She dove behind her screen, quickly tightened her corset, and threw on her shirt and trousers, letting her vest hang loose. By the time she came out, Eilian was already dressed and struggling to put on his outer prosthesis. As she wordlessly slid up the cotton sleeve, fastened the corset-like binding, and attached the springs to allow his arm to flex, he buttoned her vest and neatly tied her silk cravat with one hand. They cautiously poked their heads out of the tent but saw nothing out of the ordinary except for a new crater several hundred yards away from the first excavation.

“What’s going on?” Eilian called out as they approached Sir Joshua, who stood over the new hole shouting directions to the men.

He whipped around with a start. “Did I wake you? My apologies. After a month, you think I would remember that you are here.”

Henry stared into the pit and watched as the men scooped out what appeared to be the remains of a tree stump. A piece of shattered clay was shoveled into a bucket and dumped into a heap. “You used dynamite to remove a tree?”

“It was a very stubborn stump. Plus, Ibraheem has been dying to blow something up.”

“What about the artifacts?”

“We have not found anything in days. Actually, I was meaning to talk to you two about this. Would you be willing to take a walk and see if you can spot any potential sites? I think we have exhausted this one.”

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