Transit to Scorpio

Chapter fourteen

Chapter fourteen

Delia, Gloag and I eat palines together“Kill both the slaves. Now!”

I kicked the noble Kodifex in the place where it would do him the least good, dragged the two guards around before me and hurled them staggering into the emerald green knot of nobles, snatched the Kodifex’s rapier from its scabbard, slew the two guards holding Delia with two quick and savage thrusts, and seized her hand in my free left hand and dragged her running toward the stairs at the end of the roof garden.

“Dray!” she said, sobbing. “Dray!”

“Run, Delia of the Blue Mountains,” I said. “Run!”

At the foot of the stairs where the doorway, ornate this side, plain the other, separated the noble area from the slave quarters beneath the roof, two Ochs tried to stop me and died for their pains. I slammed