Underlord by Chanda Hahn

Author:Chanda Hahn [Hahn, Chanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chanda Hahn

Chapter Nineteen

Kira couldn’t hide her grief or tears as she entered the club in chains. Holly held her head high, and there may have been swagger in her step despite a swollen black eye and bloody scratches on her face from her bout with Kira.

Kira wished she had killed the witch long ago.

Heads turned, and fingers pointed their way.

Holly nodded. “Yeah, that’s her. I caught her. Me.” She grinned, dragging Kira around the floor of Underground Circus, showing her off.

The club, so named because of the macabre décor, red velvet couches, white curtains, and black chandeliers. Vintage posters from various sideshow attractions were hung in honor, displayed along the walls. The Camel Girl, Tripod—the three-legged man—and the Bearded Lady, to name a few. All of them, Underlanders that had made a life for themselves living in the human world, despite the Underlords’ orders. They were famous but also despised because not everyone could so pass themselves off as a circus freak, but with the decline of the sideshows, their popularity declined. Once they had made a name for themselves above, they were shunned from most establishments below. Except for the Underground Circus, the one place where they were always welcome home.

Siamese twins wearing top hats played a dilapidated organ, while an albino woman spun and performed on giant hoops, hanging from the ceiling. When the song ended, the room clapped, and the woman took a bow before the hoops disappeared above, and black and white silk scarves dropped in their place. Another performer, her skin dark as night, came and joined the albino woman, in an aerial show.

The noise dropped to a whisper as the performers weaved themselves into an impossible knot and then fell. Both unwinding and stopping inches from the ground. “They’re fabulous,” someone whispered.

“Hey I know you,” a deep voice announced, and Kira looked up into the eyes of a white werewolf. “You were Remus’s human in the gauntlet.” Then he saw Kira’s manacles, and she saw his lip pull up in distaste and heard the rumble of a low growl before slipping back into the crowd and disappearing.

“What’s taking him so long?” Holly became agitated and kept turning to scan the room. She frowned and pulled back on the chain to remind herself it was still attached to Kira.

Movement drew Kira's attention back to the center of the room as the performers— Ivory and Ebony, names she mentally gave the two aerial artists—pushed off from each other and climbed their silks, in a race to the top. Once they had reached the ceiling, they wrapped the silk around their legs and hung upside down while two men spun the silks from the ground.

Distracted by the show, Kira didn’t notice the man in the high-back velvet chair push up and waddle their way until he was almost right in front of her.

“Well, well, well.” Remus all but drooled at his excitement. “The lost has been found.”

Kira cringed when she heard her old slave owner’s voice. Remus. His once regal robes looked to have seen better days.

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