She Stole My Curse novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: The Sick Lord
"I'm going tonight," I said.
"We're going," Aurek said.
"You can't. Every vent-folk guard in the Trench knows your face. And your scales."
"Then I'll wait outside."
"A half day's swim from home?"
"I like to swim," he said.
I couldn't help it. I laughed.
The maid came with us.
She'd spent four years as Isveth's shadow in that hold, and she knew every passage in it.
"There's a garbage chute from the kitchens," she said, on the way south. "It goes out over the vent on the east side. Nobody guards it. Nobody wants to."
"How do you know about it?"
"My lady used to send me down it at night," she said. "To meet the sea witch's eels."
We reached the Ember Trench in the black hours after midnight.
Aurek stopped at the edge of the red rock, in the shadow of a dead pillar.
"If you're not back by first light, I'm coming in," he said.
"I'll be back."
"You said that about the grotto, and you came out at a sprint."
"Then I'll come out at a sprint again," I said, and kissed him, and went.
The garbage chute stank of fish heads and old ash.
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