The Drowning City: the Necromancer Chronicles book One (2009)
“She wasn’t as helpless in a fight as she’d once thought, but she had no gift for strategy. Isyllt stayed with the council, leaving Zhirin to retreat to their room, where she rubbed her mother’s ring till her fingers ached and watched the light change as it slipped down the wall.
Jabbor came later in the afternoon, and now his face held all the pity and concern she’d feared. He eased the door shut and sat beside her, not quite touching. His warmth and familiar wood-sweet scent would have bee...n comforting, had he not obviously had something to say, something that left him awkward and nervous.
“What is it?” she asked, after a few moments of listening to him draw breath but not speak.
“I—” He swallowed. She’d never seen him so nervous. “I know how hard a time this is for you. I’m sorry.”
She swallowed an unkind reply—his parents had died when he was young. Maybe he did know.MoreLess
Jabbor came later in the afternoon, and now his face held all the pity and concern she’d feared. He eased the door shut and sat beside her, not quite touching. His warmth and familiar wood-sweet scent would have bee...n comforting, had he not obviously had something to say, something that left him awkward and nervous.
“What is it?” she asked, after a few moments of listening to him draw breath but not speak.
“I—” He swallowed. She’d never seen him so nervous. “I know how hard a time this is for you. I’m sorry.”
She swallowed an unkind reply—his parents had died when he was young. Maybe he did know.MoreLess
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