‘You know I can find out what you’re hiding’.

‘You talked to him while he was here, didn’t you?’ Sophie guessed, tapping her temples when he stayed quiet. Silence followed, and Grady wouldn’t meet her eyes. ‘If you knew what he’s planning, you wouldn’t be saying that’. ‘Keefe will be fine’, Grady promised, carefully steering her away from her doorway. I know what you’re thinking –’Įven she wasn’t sure if she wanted to clobber Keefe, lock him up somewhere, or wrap him in a huge strangle-hug and tell him everything was going to be okay – though the last option seemed the least likely. ‘Is Sandor still outside?’ she asked, hoping he’d gotten a report about Keefe from one of the other guards. Sandor was in the process of frantically amping up Havenfield’s security because she’d burned down one of the Neverseen’s storehouses a few hours earlier, and everyone seemed to think that meant she’d officially started the war they’d been teetering on the brink of for years – but she couldn’t worry about that at the moment. ‘I didn’t see him – but I was out in the pastures, waiting for the new patrols to arrive’. ‘How long ago did Keefe leave?’ she asked, glancing between Grady and the tiny gnome standing near her canopied bed.įlori shook her head, making her plaited hair rustle like windblown leaves. Grady had asked the question three times, and Sophie still didn’t have an answer.Īll she could do was stare at the crumpled note she’d found waiting for her in her bedroom, hoping she’d somehow misread it.Ī sound bubbled up her throat, something between a laugh, a cry, and a groan. Sophie was ready to take it – no matter what it cost. She glanced at the sky again, watching the new star fade with the light of early dawn. Sophie turned in a slow circle, searching for the clue she had to be missing.Īnd this time, she wouldn’t let herself be fooled. This rare chance to finally get ahead of their enemies. ‘There has to be something’, she murmured. She squinted at the sky, checking the stars again. Sophie wasn’t sure who’d said it – but all her friends had to be thinking the same thing as they trudged through the long moonlit grass, which seemed to stretch endlessly into the darkness. The book Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities: book 9) by Shannon Messenger begins like this: Publicado por Adonis Nóbrega em 11 de novembro de 2022 11 de novembro de 2022 Stellarlune (Keeper of the Lost Cities: book 9) by Shannon Messenger

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