was some soft
was some soft cursing below as a dark lantern, its front covered by a metal slide to keep the light dimmed, was lit and passed upward. Thomas waited impatiently, feeling the darkness press in on him like a solid wall. He would have preferred the presence of another sorcerer besides Braun, the rest of the Queen s Guard, and a conscripted city troop to quell any possibility of riot when the restive River Quarter neighborhood discovered it had a mad foreign sorcerer in its midst. But orders were orders, and if Queen s guards or their captain were killed while entering Grandier s house secretly, then at least civil unrest was prevented. An inspired intrigue, Thomas had to admit, even if he was the one it was meant to eliminate. As he reached down to take the shuttered lamp from Gideon,
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something moved in
something moved in the corner of his eye. Thomas dropped the lamp onto the table and studied the darkness, trying to decide if the hesitant motion was actually there or in his imagination. The flicker of light escaping from the edges of the lamp s iron cover touched the room with moving shadows. With the toe of his boot Thomas knocked the lantern slide up. Chapter One 5 The wan candlelight was reflected from a dozen points around the unoccupied room, from lacquered cabinets, the gilt leather of a chair, the metallic threads in brocaded satin hangings. Then the wooden cherub supporting the right-hand corner of the table Thomas was standing on turned its head. He took an involuntary
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step backward. \ Captain,
step backward. \ Captain, what is it?\ Gideon s whisper was harsh. Thomas didn t answer. He was looking around the room as the faces in the floral carving over the chimneypiece shifted their blank white eyes, their tiny mouths working silently. The bronze snake twined around the supporting pole of a candlestand stirred sluggishly. In the woolen carpet the interwoven pattern of vines writhed. Keeping hold of the rope, Gideon chinned himself on the window ledge to see in. He cursed softly. \ Worse than I thought,\ Thomas agreed, not looking away from the hideously animate room. Unblinking eyes of marbleized wood stared sightlessly, limbs and mouths moved without sound. Can they see? Or hear? he wondered grimly. Most likely they can. He doubted they were here only to frighten
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intruders, however effective they
intruders, however effective they might be at it. \ We should burn this house to the ground,\ Gideon whispered. \ We want to get Dubell out alive, not scrape his ashes out of the wreckage.\ \ How?\ Good question, Thomas thought. The vines in the carpet were lifting themselves above the surface of the floor like the tentacles of a sea beast. They were as thick around as a man s wrist and looked strong, and metallic glints that had been gilt threads in the weaving were growing into knife-edged thorns. It was only going to get more difficult. Thomas caught up the lantern and stepped down into a chair with arms shaped into gilded lampreys. They were struggling viciously but were unable to turn their heads back far enough
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