Traitor by Nicole Conway

Author:Nicole Conway [Conway, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: children's fantasy, sword and sorcery, magic, dragons, science fiction and fantasy
ISBN: 9781945107115
Publisher: Month9Books
Published: 2016-05-02T07:00:00+00:00

Araxie tried insisting that I should stay in my own hut. I guess it was strange for the stonespeaker not to be staying with the royal family, and the hut in question had been cleared out especially for me. But I couldn’t accept that. I wanted to stay near Jace. I knew when he finally woke up he was probably going to be confused and afraid of our hosts. That was totally understandable. And I definitely had a lot of explaining to do. Poor Jace knew basically nothing about my past or anything I’d been through before he became my instructor.

Boy was he in for a surprise.

The gray elves brought back all our armor and gear, fixing up the stuffy little room in the temple as comfortably as they could with another bed and soft fur pelts on the floor. The villagers still wouldn’t meet my eyes for more than a second or two, though. I wondered how long that would last. It was beginning to make me uneasy.

The morning after those simian beasts had attacked, I stepped out of the room Jace and I were sharing to find a heap of stuff piled all around the doorway. I almost tripped over it. There were pots, bits of jewelry, weapons, and portions of food wrapped up like presents.

“Gifts from the villagers.”

Kiran was standing off to the side, just out of sight. The sudden sound of his voice about scared me to death.

“Gifts? Why?” I squatted to pick up a dagger made of strange white material. It wasn’t bone. In fact, it almost felt like some sort of wood.

Kiran smirked. “Word has spread of what you did—singlehandedly bringing down two graulers. You saved many lives.”

I rolled my eyes. “Technically, Araxie killed the second one.”

“It seems she’s willing to give you the credit if it will help smooth things over.” He shrugged. “So now everyone is thankful to have Paligno’s blessed one among us again. It is the first time in a decade they’ve had anything to celebrate. A small victory.”

“I’m still waiting for someone to explain that to me,” I reminded him.

“Soon, caenu. King Erandur has emerged from his mourning to announce there will be a great feast tonight. I suspect you’ll get all the answers you can stand there.”

I studied him carefully. “So why won’t you call me by my name? By now I’m sure you know what it is.”

“Does it matter what I call you?” He arched one of his eyebrows.

“Calling me a piece of filth isn’t exactly a pet name,” I pointed out.

Kiran grinned devilishly, almost like he was hoping I would want to fight about it. “You misunderstand. Gray elf men must never be too friendly unless they are family.”

“Oh really? Why is that?”

“Because we compete for the same thing,” he said as he made a curvy outline of a feminine shape in the air with his fingers. “We are rivals until one of us takes a mate.”

I chuckled. “I’ve already chosen mine. And I doubt very much she’d be someone you would want, unless you’re interested in human women.

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