The Queen & The Assassin 2 - Silver by Marshall Lisette

Author:Marshall, Lisette
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-01-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Tamar had trouble focussing on her meeting.

In theory this could be blamed on the two men sitting at her desk, who were bickering about the possibility of a research team visiting the Forbidden Lakes and barely seemed to know what request they had actually come to make. Under normal circumstances she’d already have kicked them out and told them to come back when they knew what they were wasting her time for. But Amiran had asked her to receive them, and he was angry enough already without her shoving his scientist friends out of the door…

‘More than five people is absolutely out of the question,’ the short, grey-haired gentleman on the right snapped. ‘It’s a dangerous area even if—’

‘But we’ll need a secretary! A sketch artist! A guide! At least three men who can handle weapons, too!’

‘Weapons? What’s the use of that if it is indeed magic?’

Tamar closed her eyes. The two men opposite the desk didn’t notice.

Clearly, it was their directionless squabbling that made her mind drift off to… elsewhere. To her bed, if she was a little more honest. To Runo’s soft lips, his tender kisses waking her from her slumber this morning. His fingers teasing over her body, circling her breasts, roaming towards the sensitive flesh between her thighs – but never truly arriving…

She sucked in a breath, a hopeless attempt to cool down the heat flaring through her.

‘It cannot be the edge!’ The debate on the other side of her desk still raged on. ‘These lakes are sitting in the middle of the continent! It cannot be edge magic!’

‘But if it turns out to be edge magic—’

‘The excursion will disprove it,’ the pox-marked scientist on the left snapped. ‘What we need is—’

‘We can’t go in having decided what we will prove! We are scientists, not…’

Tamar nearly groaned as she opened her eyes again. For the gods’ sake, she had scheduled a full hour for this nonsense. They were ten minutes in, and already she was overcome by murderous urges… Could she cut the meeting short after half an hour? Amiran could hardly accuse her of disinterest in the subject of his study if she refused to listen to an hour of this drivel.

‘Could we return to the core of the matter?’ she interrupted the grey-haired man in the middle of an argument on lake depths. ‘I need to know how many people exactly need to be allowed into the area. No more than a dozen, I presume?’

‘No, Your Majesty, as I said, more than five people is—’

‘But listen to reason! We cannot just exclude the geologists if this is the one occasion…’

A knock on the door interrupted that passionate plea on geology. For a moment Tamar nearly found herself hoping Eelia would storm into the room and put a swift end to this ordeal – but it was just a servant, slipping in with a look of cautious confusion on his round face.

‘Your Majesty, a quick note from Lord Terenti.’

She frowned and stuck out her hand.

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