Tithe to Tartarus: The Dark Avenger's Sidekick Book Three (Moth & Cobweb 6) by John C. Wright

Author:John C. Wright [Wright, John C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Castalia House
Published: 2017-09-12T22:00:00+00:00

3. The Rule of Debts

Yumiko snatched him up into her hand.

“Not this again!” he groaned. “By the eyeball of Balor, woman, you do have lively reflexes, don’t you? Are you part rattlesnake? ’Twould explain much.”

Yumiko said, “Why are you back here?”

“I live here. This is the house I mind. Just because you lit it afire don’t mean I leave my post. We are not all like you, after all. By the bye, where is that grail you are supposed to be looking after? Shouldn’t you have taken up your mommy’s work by now?”

Yumiko shook him until his teeth rattled. “Why are you back here?”

“Ah! Agh! I never left, you stupid bint. Willy knew you from the moment you walked in, wiggling your hot hips like a slattern! The Captain, he wanted to torture you straight off, but Willy, he likes tricks and sleights and subtleties. That is the way magic is. It never works on you until you have been told. That is why the elfs tell the magicians so much of the dark lore, and the magicians in Hollywood and New York put these things in stories and books. The vampire bite can’t bite unless you hear about them as a child. Why else would we not use the Black Spell to sponge all memory of us away? Why would we let anyone remember the name of Jack o’ Lantern? He is as old as the Picts, older than Caesar.” Crookshank shivered and looked around nervously. “Don’t mind me! Go back to what you were doing!”

She narrowed her eyes and shook him again. “So you told me how it works. Because you had to.”

“Don’t you wish you had a memory like an elf? Now, can you bring to mind the exact wording I said? No, no, you cannot. Poor thing.”

He put his little hands on her finger and thumb and pushed them open. She strained, but in vain.

The tiny creature, less than nine inches tall, now twisted her thumb so painfully, she was forced down to one knee, wincing. He threw back his head and laughed. “Girly, did you think to overmaster me? I let you grab me. I wanted it. Your hands are soft and fair, and feeling you caress my body lights up my love-lamp. And when I anger you, how brightly you blush! How your bosom heaves! Your eyes, how they flash! Every time you changed clothes, I watched you! Do you really, truly think a half-blood Daughter of Eve can outsmart a true-blood Son of Air and Old Night? Pshew and Pshaw! I let you start this fire because I mean to build this house back bigger and finer than before after Wilcolac returns from the Tithing Ground with all the bounty the devils will pay for the soul of your Poor Tom Moth. He thought he could outwit Rotwang, poor Tom, who had him outwitted nine ways from Saturday! Heh, heh. Get it? That is sort of a joke.”

“I did not light this fire.”

“You or your master.

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