The Fish the Fighters and the Song-Girl (Sacred Band of Stepsons: Sacred Band Tales) by Morris Janet & Morris Chris

Author:Morris, Janet & Morris, Chris [Morris, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9780985166823
Publisher: Perseid Publishing
Published: 2012-04-17T21:00:00+00:00

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The morning after the sky caught fire, Tempus was sitting by Niko’s sickbed when Randal came to call.

“I’ll see to him, Commander,” said the mage, who touched his kris, from which healing water could issue.

Jihan had applied the powdered placenta of some unlucky cat, and Niko’s eye was healing.

But these wounds would take a while, even with magic to help them.

In the nursery-turned-hospital, beside the stricken fighter, two children lay in sleep from which no one had yet managed to rouse them.

This, Tempus knew, was really what Randal must do here. But he had to say, “Stealth and I have reaffirmed our pair-bond. Can you tend him in good conscience, with a minimum of magic?”

Randal himself had once been paired with Stealth, at the Riddler’s order, and loved the western fighter still.

The mage looked down, then up, then squared his shoulders. “Of course. And the children, too… if I have their father’s permission?”

“Ask the god about his offspring. He’s the stud, not me,” Tempus snapped and stormed out.

He had a woman to ravish to placate the god within him, a necromant to thank in person, and a welcome to prepare for Theron, emperor of Ranke.

But Jihan found him before he found a likely wench on the Street of Red Lanterns.

Her eyes were glowing. She squeezed his arm and wanted to know, “Just what kind of houses are these?”

He had half a mind to show her, but not the time: she’d come to get him to mediate between Crit and Strat in matters of command and to ask whether they could all attend a “fête for returning heroes” being given by friends of Ischade’s who lived uptown, and whether he’d noticed anything strange about Strat’s bay horse.

And since he had troubles enough of his own, and Jihan was one, he agreed to go with her, gave permission for the Band and Stepsons to attend the fête, and lied about the horse, saying he hadn’t noticed anything strange about it at all.

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