were less than welcome in Nevagan Aether.
Bala lifted an eyebrow. “Something else you wanted to say, Sunrider?”
Halmeera bit her lip for a moment. “No, Sunmaster.”
Bala nodded. “I understand your concern, Halmeera,” she continued in a softer voice. “But I’ve been plying the Aether for more cycles than I can count. I know what I’m doing. And I’d rather trade my soul to Qurna than see a slave ship escape. Not on my watch.”
Halmeera shifted, one eye fixed on the distant gleaming speck of Llathe. “You think it’s a slave ship, then?”
“Are they heaving to?”
The question didn’t need answering, but discipline compelled Halmeera to anyway. “No, Sunmaster.”
“Then it would seem they have something to hide, don’t they?” Bala turned back for her cabin. “Hold present course and speed, Sunrider,” she called back over her shoulder. “Alert me the moment anything changes.”
About the Author:
Ben Cassidy lives in Vancouver, WA, with his wife and three children. He pursued graduate studies in history for several years until he decided that reading six scholarly books a week was not challenging enough for him, and so switched to being a stay-at-home dad. He has been writing since he was in third grade, though now he is able to bribe other people to do the illustrating for him. He has the uncanny habit of writing of himself in the third person, and is disturbed by how easily his whole life can be summed up in four sentences. Or even five.
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