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A Kiss Of Shadows :: Гамильтон Лорел
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Something about the way he worded that bothered me, but it was the best offer I was going to get tonight. I lowered the gun. "Swear by your honor and the darkness that eats all things, that you mean all of what you just said."
"I swear on my honor, and by the darkness that eats all things, that every word I have spoken on this street to you is the truth."
I clicked the safety on the gun and tucked it at the small of my back. I picked my jacket up off the ground, shook it out, and slipped it on. It was a little wrinkled, but it would do. "How far is your hotel?"
The smile this time was wider, it made him less perfect, but more… human. More real. "You should smile more often, Lord Sholto. It becomes you."
"I hope to have reason to smile more often in the near future." He offered me his arm, even though he was yards away. I went to him because he'd sworn the Unseelie's most solemn oath. He could not break it without risking a curse.
I slipped my hand in the crook of his arm. He flexed under my hand. Sometimes a male is a male is a male, no matter what flavor they are. "Which hotel are you staying at?" I smiled at him. It never hurts to be pleasant. I could always be unpleasant later if I needed to be.
He told me. It was a very nice hotel.
"That's a little far to walk," I said.
"If you like, we can get a taxi."
I raised eyebrows at that, because once inside the metal of a car he wouldn't be able to do major magic. Too much refined metal interfered with it. I could do major spells inside solid lead if I had to. My human blood was good for a few things. "Won't you be uncomfortable?" I asked.
"It's not that far, and it's our mutual comfort I've come to see to."
Again, I felt there were shades of meaning in his words that I was missing. "A taxi would be lovely."
Agnes called after us. "What are we to do with Nerys?"
Sholto looked back at them and his face was cold again, that carved handsomeness that made him seem distant. "Make your way back to your rooms any way you can. If Nerys had not tried to attack the princess, she wouldn't have been wounded."
"We have served you for more centuries than that piece of white flesh will ever see, and this is the treatment you give us," Agnes said.
"You get the treatment that you earn, Agnes. Remember that." He turned, patting my hand on his arm, smiling at me, but his triple-golden eyes still held the edge of that coldness.
Gethin appeared at Sholto's side, floppy hat in his hands, a bow curving him toward the sidewalk. He had impossibly long ears, like those of a donkey.
Something about the way he worded that bothered me, but it was the best offer I was going to get tonight. I lowered the gun. "Swear by your honor and the darkness that eats all things, that you mean all of what you just said."
"I swear on my honor, and by the darkness that eats all things, that every word I have spoken on this street to you is the truth."
I clicked the safety on the gun and tucked it at the small of my back. I picked my jacket up off the ground, shook it out, and slipped it on. It was a little wrinkled, but it would do. "How far is your hotel?"
The smile this time was wider, it made him less perfect, but more… human. More real. "You should smile more often, Lord Sholto. It becomes you."
"I hope to have reason to smile more often in the near future." He offered me his arm, even though he was yards away. I went to him because he'd sworn the Unseelie's most solemn oath. He could not break it without risking a curse.
I slipped my hand in the crook of his arm. He flexed under my hand. Sometimes a male is a male is a male, no matter what flavor they are. "Which hotel are you staying at?" I smiled at him. It never hurts to be pleasant. I could always be unpleasant later if I needed to be.
He told me. It was a very nice hotel.
"That's a little far to walk," I said.
"If you like, we can get a taxi."
I raised eyebrows at that, because once inside the metal of a car he wouldn't be able to do major magic. Too much refined metal interfered with it. I could do major spells inside solid lead if I had to. My human blood was good for a few things. "Won't you be uncomfortable?" I asked.
"It's not that far, and it's our mutual comfort I've come to see to."
Again, I felt there were shades of meaning in his words that I was missing. "A taxi would be lovely."
Agnes called after us. "What are we to do with Nerys?"
Sholto looked back at them and his face was cold again, that carved handsomeness that made him seem distant. "Make your way back to your rooms any way you can. If Nerys had not tried to attack the princess, she wouldn't have been wounded."
"We have served you for more centuries than that piece of white flesh will ever see, and this is the treatment you give us," Agnes said.
"You get the treatment that you earn, Agnes. Remember that." He turned, patting my hand on his arm, smiling at me, but his triple-golden eyes still held the edge of that coldness.
Gethin appeared at Sholto's side, floppy hat in his hands, a bow curving him toward the sidewalk. He had impossibly long ears, like those of a donkey.