Orphan's Blade
“The sea, the clouds, and the air had a misty, bleak quality that did not bode well for their journey. Nathaniel tightened his cape around his neck, eager to leave New Shaletown behind him no matter what the future brought.
“Where is this captain that your…lady friend recommended?” Brax spoke from the inside of his hood. Out of the three of them, he was the one who was most likely to be recognized, so he kept his face hidden at all costs.
“She’s not my lady friend.” Brax made her sound like a mistress. “I knew her as a child, that’s all.”
“But, you knew her well enough to trust her now?” Valoria sounded suspicious, as if he were withholding some secret relationship, which would not be wrong considering she was betrothed to Brax and not to him.
“Without her recommendation, we’d be choosing blindly. We do not have any other choice.” He counted the ships at the dock. Blanca had said it was the fifth one in, double-masted with a flag of red and gold.
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