Seven Stones: Part Fifty-Four
Previously on Seven Stones: Anessa adds the soporific potion to the water and returns to Anserth’s headquarters without arousing suspicion. Anserth agrees to wait for morning to launch the attack, increasing the chance most of the guards will be drugged. However, Kobb is nowhere to be seen and the Inductor seems interested in more than just details of Anessa’s mission.
The scent of sweat and spices filled Anessa’s nose. A fluttering sensation joined the churning in her stomach. Muscles taut, she stepped away, a tingle running along her jaw as it drew across Serth’s fingers. Unsteady — but ability to act returning — she took another pace. Only to fall as the edge of cot hit the back of her left leg, sending her sprawling.
Serth moved closer, her gaze heavy as it ran up Anessa’s body. “Are you — ?”
Anessa drew her legs in and shoved against at the palliasse with her fists.
“Steady.” Serth dropped to a crouch and raised her hands, palms forward. “What’s wrong?”
Wrong? Serth was a liar and a killer and a… “I wasn’t… I…”
“You haven’t been with a woman before, have you?”
Heat raced across Anessa’s skin. Been with a woman? Privacy wasn’t something most people in Morth had, and mostly everyone tended animals…
