Alex Verus 5: Hidden
“Black walls stretched up to the sky, battlements topped the towers, and small arrow-slit windows peeked out over nearby courtyards. The main entrance was a small inset door. Looking at the keep from here, the out-of-place feeling was stronger. The rest of the castle might be ancient, but it was cohesive. The keep didn’t fit; it felt darker, colder. Two shadows stood guard outside.
A quiet whine made me turn aside from where I was crouching, overlooking the front gate. The fox looked towards... the gate, looked back at me, and blinked twice. “I’m not even thinking about it,” I said. “Even if I got past the shadows, they’d see me coming.”
The fox trotted a few steps away, then looked back at me again. “That way? Okay . . .”
The fox led me down some steps, around the corner of a building, through a ground-floor window into a room filled with wooden crates, and to a dark stairwell leading down. It trotted down two steps and then looked back, amber eyes shining out of the blackness.MoreLess
A quiet whine made me turn aside from where I was crouching, overlooking the front gate. The fox looked towards... the gate, looked back at me, and blinked twice. “I’m not even thinking about it,” I said. “Even if I got past the shadows, they’d see me coming.”
The fox trotted a few steps away, then looked back at me again. “That way? Okay . . .”
The fox led me down some steps, around the corner of a building, through a ground-floor window into a room filled with wooden crates, and to a dark stairwell leading down. It trotted down two steps and then looked back, amber eyes shining out of the blackness.MoreLess
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