The Unknown Spy by Eoin McNamee

Author:Eoin McNamee [McNamee, Eoin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-375-89950-8
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-08-09T04:00:00+00:00

THE KINGDOM

The passage wound upward into the mountains for what felt like miles. Danny’s calves ached with the climb. Flickering torches hung on the walls at intervals, but between them it was dark, and he had slipped and fallen several times. He ran over his new identity in his head. He was there to study the history of the Lower World. They had decided that Dixie would pretend to be a student of the treaty. That way she could ask to see the Treaty Stone.

If the other team hasn’t broken it already, Danny thought.

Suddenly he felt a strange sensation in his head, as if, for a moment, his thoughts were not quite his own. He brushed it off and continued doggedly, but the feeling persisted. Not that someone was trying to get into his head, but that they were thinking about him, and in doing so had connected with him in some way.

He remembered the time he had joined the Ring of Five, how he could feel and hear the thoughts of other members of the Ring in his head. This was a little like that, only very far away. As if someone was trying desperately to find out what was happening wherever Danny was. Longford. It was him! The very second he thought of the name the sensation vanished, as if Longford had sensed Danny’s awareness and removed himself. And yet in his eagerness he had left something of himself behind in Danny’s mind—more than he had intended. A part of his thinking, like a lingering scent. Danny stopped dead.

“What?” Dixie grabbed his arm. If Longford’s thought was a scent, then there would be a foul undertone to it. Danny shook his head to show that he was all right, but fear swept over him. For he knew, from the fragment that Longford had left behind, that a trap had been prepared for him in the kingdom of Morne. He searched his mind for Longford’s thought, but it was gone.

“Do your worst, Longford,” he murmured to himself, but the brave words were lost in the cold damp tunnel as he resumed his climb.

After another half hour earth and stone underfoot became paving, and the rough stone walls gave way to smooth limestone with paintings and tapestries hung every few yards. More passages ran off on either side. From some, rich scents drifted; from others came snatches of voices or music. Ahead of Dixie, Danny and Macari stood two young men elegantly dressed in embroidered doublets and hose. They were absorbed in whispered conversation, and when they saw the small party approaching they gathered up their cloaks, pulled the hoods over their heads and hurried off in opposite directions.

The corridors widened, their ceilings lost in the dark. Small groups of people stood in opulent rooms off the corridor, many turning their faces away as the trio approached. The women wore silk dresses, the men velvet tunics and hose. Both men and women had powdered wigs.

“What’s going on?” Dixie said. “Why

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