Chapter one
On a roof in Jikaida CityThere are more ways than one hundred and one of stealing an airboat and this was going to be way Number One. Just walk up to the craft, step aboard, and take off — first making sure she was not tethered down.
That was the theory.
The guard stepped from a shadowed doorway on the first landing and stuck a glittering great cleaver under my nose.
“Stand where you are, dom, or your head will go bouncing down those stairs you’ve just walked up.”
Light from the lamp held in the hand of a bronze cupid at the head of the stairs struck sparks from his eyes. All he could see of me must be a silhouette. The muffling mask of gray cloth over my face and head and the dull baggy clothes were unrecognizable.
“Why, dom,” I said. “You’re making a mistake—”
No doubt
