Vlad Taltos - 02 Yendi by Steven Brust

Author:Steven Brust [Brust, Steven]
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Vlad Taltos, Assassins
Publisher: Diamond Books (NY)
Published: 1987-05-14T08:00:00+00:00

" Loiosh, don't do anything. "

There was a pause then, " I know, boss, but--"

" Nothing! "

" Okay, boss. Hang in there. "

The one who'd just hit me was standing over me now. He said, "Two men were

murdered just outside of the door of this place, Jhereg." He made it sound like a

curse. "What do you know about it?"

"Lord," I said, "I don't know oomph! " as his foot took me in the stomach. I'd seen

it just in time to move forward, so he missed my solar plexus.

The other one came up then. "Did you hear him, Men-thar? He don't know oomph.

How about that?" He spat on me. "I think we should take him to the barracks.

What do you think?"

Menthar muttered something and kept looking at me. "I've heard you're a tough

one, Whiskers. Is that true?"

"No, lord," I told him.

He nodded and said to the other one, "This isn't a Jhereg; this is a Teckla. Look

at him squirm. Doesn't it make you sick?"

His partner said, "What about those two murders, Teckla? You sure you don't

know anything about them?" He reached down and hauled me up, so that I was

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against the back wall. "You real sure?"

I said, "I don't know what--" and he caught me under the chin with the pommel of

his dagger, which had been hidden in his hand. My head cracked against the wall

and I felt my jaw break. I must have lost consciousness for an instant, because I

don't remember sliding to the floor.

Then Menthar said, "You hold him for me."

The other guard agreed. "But be careful. Easterners are fragile. Remember the

last one."

"I'll be careful." He looked at me and smiled. "Last chance," he said. "What do

you know about those two dead men outside?"

I shook my head, which hurt like blazes, but I knew trying to talk would hurt more.

He hefted his dagger, hilt up, and swung his arm back for a good windup....

I don't know how long the whole thing lasted. It was certainly one of the worst I'd

been through, but if they'd chosen to take me back to their barracks it would have

been worse. Phoenix Guards are never ordered to beat up Jhereg, or Easterners,

or anyone else, but some of them don't like us.

This beating was peculiar. I'd been bashed around before; it was one of the

prices I paid for living according to my own rules instead of the Empire's. But

why this time? The two dead men were Jhereg, and the usual attitude of Imperial

Guards to such things is: let 'em kill each other off, for all we care. It could have

been just another excuse to beat up an Easterner or a Jhereg, but they'd seemed

genuinely angry about something.

These thoughts came to me through a thick haze of pain as I was lying on my

office floor. I was concentrating as hard as I could on figuring out the reason

behind the beating so that I could avoid thinking about how every inch of me hurt.

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