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BLOOD GOD REBORN CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Her GroundShe wrote four words. The archive reading room. That was the whole message, no time, noinstruction, just a location that told me three things before I had taken a step toward it: sheworked there, she had keys, and she had chosen a place where if anything went wrong theofficial explanation for her presence was already built in.Corren did not like it."She picked the location," he said. "You're walking into a room she controls with one exitthat we know of and you don't know who else she's told.""I know.""I'll be outside but outside is not inside, Draven. If something goes wrong inside thatbuilding—""I know, Corren."He made the sound he makes when he has said the thing and I have heard the thing and Iam going anyway. Then he pulled his coat and said he would take the east approach and watchthe servant entrance and I said fine and we left the tanner's yard for the last time because whenwe came back from this, whatever this was, we were not coming back to a room tha
BLOOD GOD REBORN CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Eleven Words "Elara," the Blood Sage said. I heard it. I stood in the middle of the room with my coat still on and I heard it and the first thing my head did with it was nothing. Just the name sitting there. Then everything underneath the name started moving and I sat down on the bench by the door because standing felt like the wrong thing to be doing. "Elara Voss," I said. Not a question. "Yes." "Four months ago." "Four months ago Vael made the offer. Elara has not accepted. She has not refused. She has been holding the question for four months." Corren was standing near the window. He had his arms crossed and he was looking at the floor and doing the underwater thing, and I could see him working through the same sequence I was working through, all the conversations about Elara, all the assessments, the Blood Sage saying she is not running from you, she is deciding whether to run toward you, and underneath all of it now this, four months of Vael's offer sitting in Elara
BLOOD GOD REBORN CHAPTER TWENTY The List
"That's him," Corren said.Rendell was shorter than I had pictured. I don't know why I'd pictured anything. He camearound the corner of the south street with two other men and a cart that had seen better decades,one wheel slightly off true so it pulled left and he kept correcting it without looking down, theautomatic correction of someone who has made this route enough times that his body does itbefore his head notices the lean.We were in the shadow of the building opposite. Corren had found the position two hoursbefore Rendell arrived and we had stood in it and not spoken much. The night was cold in thespecific way that Voldimore gets cold in this season, not sharp, just a damp that finds the gapsin whatever you are wearing and settles there."When they open the south door," I said."I know," Corren said.We had done this before. Not this exact thing but the shape of it. Wait, watch, move whenthe door opens and the attention is on the delivery and the men doing the carrying
BLOOD GOD REBORN CHAPTER NINETEEN What Corren Brought Back
The table had a crack in it. Not deep. A hairline running from one corner toward themiddle that stopped about four inches from the centre and did not go further. I had been lookingat it for about an hour. I could not tell you why. There was nothing useful about it. I keptlooking at it anyway.The Blood Sage had gone to sleep in the back room two hours ago or she had gone to theback room two hours ago. I did not know which. The yard outside had gone quiet. No moregrinding, no more lantern. Just the smell and the dark and the crack in the table.I was trying to think about Cael Dorn.What I kept thinking about instead was the convocation record. The specific language of aformal dissolution. I had seen three in my time as a Crimson Knight and the language wasalways the same, a particular legal formula that had to be spoken into record by the sessionconvener before it was binding, and the session convener for the Kalu dissolution had been CaelDorn, which meant his voice had said
BLOOD GOD REBORN CHAPTER NINETEEN What Corren Brought Back
The table had a crack in it. Not deep. A hairline running from one corner toward themiddle that stopped about four inches from the centre and did not go further. I had been lookingat it for about an hour. I could not tell you why. There was nothing useful about it. I keptlooking at it anyway.The Blood Sage had gone to sleep in the back room two hours ago or she had gone to theback room two hours ago. I did not know which. The yard outside had gone quiet. No moregrinding, no more lantern. Just the smell and the dark and the crack in the table.I was trying to think about Cael Dorn.What I kept thinking about instead was the convocation record. The specific language of aformal dissolution. I had seen three in my time as a Crimson Knight and the language wasalways the same, a particular legal formula that had to be spoken into record by the sessionconvener before it was binding, and the session convener for the Kalu dissolution had been CaelDorn, which meant his voice had said
BLOOD GOD REBORN CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Tanner's Yard
"Two guards east entrance, one on the roof I could confirm, maybe two I couldn't, and thebuilding runs deeper than the frontage suggests, there's a south access that they are either notwatching or making it look like they're not watching and I couldn't — " He stopped. Looked athis hand. "I lost it. Give me a second."He had been talking since the door. Coat still on, the smell of the afternoon market on him,fish oil and hot stone and underneath it the tannery two streets over which had been soaking intothe walls of this room for three days and which I only noticed now because Corren had walkedin carrying a fresher version of it. He flipped through his notebook. The handwriting inside itlooked like a man running."South access," he said again, finger on the page. "That's the question. Whether it's anoversight or bait.""How long did you watch the roof guard.""Long enough to know he's not militia. Moves like private contract. Which means Dornisn't pulling city resources, he's
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