Page 54 (1/2)
Briar backed up a step, angry again "No," he snapped "Send a kid to spy in a house where four of your own grown Watch? Not while I’m her teacher, and not while Dedicate Rosethorn is my teacher I don’t care if it makes your life easier" They blinked at thewho she was, but it seemed like a small risk If they knew his conversation with Lady Zenadia in the souk, they had to know Rosethorn had talked to Jebilu, and that she’d forced their wonderful stone e to bon He continued, "If you meddle with Evvy, you won’t like what happens Rosethorn will back lared at Briar "I do not like threats"
"Briar Moss," Turaba re pahans in Emelan, one of the"
Briar shrugged "Stories get stretched when they travel"
"But you are that pahan, are you not?" Turaba pursued
"Maybe," Briar said with another shrug "Me and the girls always get talked about"
Turaba looked at her nal with her hand Tentatively she asked Briar, "Can we not reach an acco street kids as pawns," Briar told them "Evvy’s scraped to live in this wonderful city for years You owe her better than sending her into that house, if there’s a chance she’ll be risking her life"
The hed "There have been poor since the birth of huenerosity of your heart that you have taken this girl in, but know this: for every girl lifted from poverty, there are twenty more to take her place No one could save them all"
Not that you ever bothered, Briar thought, but he kept it to himself He’d already pushed this lobe she still held "Will you at least keep your ears open for s involved -- you ain"
"Why bother?" asked Briar "Her kinfolk will hush it up, no matter what"
"If she has committed truly serious crimes, her own kin ant an end to her activities," the mutabir replied "Even nobles answer to the law She cannot murder without consequences"
"I’ll think about it," Briar said flatly "Can I go now?"
The ers on a tabletop, then nodded Briar turned and walked out, the skin on the back of his neck prickling He was surprised at their restraint Most law officials he’d knoould bruise people first for defying theize later He knew that law-keepers tended to walk softly around ht not be able to fix? -- but this was the first time he’d experienced it personally Which stories about hiirls had filtered to this far place?