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.All right? All right, yes, Xeras agreed reluctantly.Then he paused, looking towards the door. I suppose thismust be how Drinia feels, when I try to& And I am sure, like her, you will resent it.But there is more than one person in this town who seesyou as the man who foiled their plans.And if they do manage to kill you, it will break the treaty and thrustus back into the arms of war.So you will have to be a little more amiable, and avoid going about the placealone& and it won t be all bad. No? You have to admit, we have some catching up to do& 146 www.samhainpublishing.com Chapter SixteenCarly and Xeras stood, side by side, at the bottom of the gate.Katinka and Parlen were with them, anda few other townsfolk were loitering about.It was a relief to see Drinia still hopping around on thealewife s rooftop, clattering along the guttering and sending a few pieces of loose slate hurtling down tobreak on the cobbles.Xeras contrived to ignore the damage she was doing.No doubt he would be hearingall about it from Garia soon enough.The Thurstians and Tirrinians had not been invited to this makeshift reception, and it seemed theyweren t going to press the issue although they might well be using the vantage offered by the doors andwindows of the hall and the guildhouse. So there is a gate in the gate? Xeras asked.In reply Katinka pointed to the great face of the gate. More like a door. The gate seemed to be made of wood, although how wood could have lasted this long, Xeras couldnot imagine.It was clad in squares of metal as large as a generously sized serving platter, fixed in placewith huge square-headed forged nails.The two sides of the gate came together with matching crenulatededges that meshed like teeth.Just before them, there was indeed a simple door, the seams of its edges were almost hidden by themeeting of the corroded metal plates, but the large, ornate hinges were easy to see.Also, at the center of thedoor was some kind of seal, ringed about by decoration.But as Xeras leaned forward, the vine-like patternresolved into hard-worn characters in dragon script.He reached up and rubbed the curious, colorful rustwith his finger, further exposing the script that ringed the central starburst. The entrance of the bold, he translated roughly. To the welcome of the just. Is that what it says? Carly said. I had always wondered. No you didn t, Parlen grumbled. Maybe not, but I should have. I ll do the wondering, Katinka said. You do the welcoming.At this point we d better play to ourstrengths. So you will be doing the annoying& We could, Xeras suggested, send someone up top to check who they are sending through. It would look like we don t trust them, Carly said. Emily Veinglory I don t, Parlen commented. And if you have any sense you won t either& Forget I said that.Yoursister is the only one with any sense. He just hasn t met me yet.Xeras smiled; at least it sounded like Drin was planning to stay around.Carly turned to Parlen with a frown and the chamberlain shrugged. I guess I ll go and& besomewhere else, he muttered.Given that Parlen had spent most of the last few weeks locked in a dungeon, a certain degree ofanimosity was perhaps to be expected.Today the first of the weekly permitted immigrants would arrive, perhaps with a child in arms.Theywere meant to bring enough supplies to carry them for a month or more, and be able to do such work asmight be available, to earn their way. I am pretty sure it is dawn. Katinka looked up into the pale-colored sky.The actual sun would berising diagonally over the plains, not yet visible from where they stood.Xeras considered the door, chewing on one ragged thumbnail.Carly placed his seal of office in thecenter of the design and pulled in a hook-shaped protuberance at the side of the door.Think about wanting to open the door.But the thing was, Xeras wasn t feeling too keen on opening the door.There were already enoughpeople in town who would like to murder him in his sleep.Phinia s Thurstian forces were billeted in themeeting hall, which had direct access to the manse.Even now he saw that she had come out to stand on anupper balcony, looking like she wished she had a crossbow and a good alibi.The remaining Tirriniansseemed have rather mixed feelings.Some of them were still less than friendly.Did he really want to addplainsmen to the mix?The alternative was a war.You do remember that, don t you?Right.With the next tug, Carly had the door open.By a coincidence of position, Xeras had the first goodlook at what stood on the other side. Tell me, Carly? Xeras asked. Did you happen to specify how old a child could be in order not tocount as an extra person? No, only that they should be a child in& Carly leaned over.In the doorway stood Yulia, and in her arms was the rather disgruntled figure ofher fully grown son, Sedge.To join our merry band of people who have tried to kill you, or would like to. & arms. Carly finished [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.All right? All right, yes, Xeras agreed reluctantly.Then he paused, looking towards the door. I suppose thismust be how Drinia feels, when I try to& And I am sure, like her, you will resent it.But there is more than one person in this town who seesyou as the man who foiled their plans.And if they do manage to kill you, it will break the treaty and thrustus back into the arms of war.So you will have to be a little more amiable, and avoid going about the placealone& and it won t be all bad. No? You have to admit, we have some catching up to do& 146 www.samhainpublishing.com Chapter SixteenCarly and Xeras stood, side by side, at the bottom of the gate.Katinka and Parlen were with them, anda few other townsfolk were loitering about.It was a relief to see Drinia still hopping around on thealewife s rooftop, clattering along the guttering and sending a few pieces of loose slate hurtling down tobreak on the cobbles.Xeras contrived to ignore the damage she was doing.No doubt he would be hearingall about it from Garia soon enough.The Thurstians and Tirrinians had not been invited to this makeshift reception, and it seemed theyweren t going to press the issue although they might well be using the vantage offered by the doors andwindows of the hall and the guildhouse. So there is a gate in the gate? Xeras asked.In reply Katinka pointed to the great face of the gate. More like a door. The gate seemed to be made of wood, although how wood could have lasted this long, Xeras couldnot imagine.It was clad in squares of metal as large as a generously sized serving platter, fixed in placewith huge square-headed forged nails.The two sides of the gate came together with matching crenulatededges that meshed like teeth.Just before them, there was indeed a simple door, the seams of its edges were almost hidden by themeeting of the corroded metal plates, but the large, ornate hinges were easy to see.Also, at the center of thedoor was some kind of seal, ringed about by decoration.But as Xeras leaned forward, the vine-like patternresolved into hard-worn characters in dragon script.He reached up and rubbed the curious, colorful rustwith his finger, further exposing the script that ringed the central starburst. The entrance of the bold, he translated roughly. To the welcome of the just. Is that what it says? Carly said. I had always wondered. No you didn t, Parlen grumbled. Maybe not, but I should have. I ll do the wondering, Katinka said. You do the welcoming.At this point we d better play to ourstrengths. So you will be doing the annoying& We could, Xeras suggested, send someone up top to check who they are sending through. It would look like we don t trust them, Carly said. Emily Veinglory I don t, Parlen commented. And if you have any sense you won t either& Forget I said that.Yoursister is the only one with any sense. He just hasn t met me yet.Xeras smiled; at least it sounded like Drin was planning to stay around.Carly turned to Parlen with a frown and the chamberlain shrugged. I guess I ll go and& besomewhere else, he muttered.Given that Parlen had spent most of the last few weeks locked in a dungeon, a certain degree ofanimosity was perhaps to be expected.Today the first of the weekly permitted immigrants would arrive, perhaps with a child in arms.Theywere meant to bring enough supplies to carry them for a month or more, and be able to do such work asmight be available, to earn their way. I am pretty sure it is dawn. Katinka looked up into the pale-colored sky.The actual sun would berising diagonally over the plains, not yet visible from where they stood.Xeras considered the door, chewing on one ragged thumbnail.Carly placed his seal of office in thecenter of the design and pulled in a hook-shaped protuberance at the side of the door.Think about wanting to open the door.But the thing was, Xeras wasn t feeling too keen on opening the door.There were already enoughpeople in town who would like to murder him in his sleep.Phinia s Thurstian forces were billeted in themeeting hall, which had direct access to the manse.Even now he saw that she had come out to stand on anupper balcony, looking like she wished she had a crossbow and a good alibi.The remaining Tirriniansseemed have rather mixed feelings.Some of them were still less than friendly.Did he really want to addplainsmen to the mix?The alternative was a war.You do remember that, don t you?Right.With the next tug, Carly had the door open.By a coincidence of position, Xeras had the first goodlook at what stood on the other side. Tell me, Carly? Xeras asked. Did you happen to specify how old a child could be in order not tocount as an extra person? No, only that they should be a child in& Carly leaned over.In the doorway stood Yulia, and in her arms was the rather disgruntled figure ofher fully grown son, Sedge.To join our merry band of people who have tried to kill you, or would like to. & arms. Carly finished [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]