“Don’t become so wise that you’re stupid, Skeeve,” she said softly before she left. “Remember, Luanna’s already chosen you twice over her partners. Both times she’s risked her life and their getaway to pass you a warning. Maybe all she needs is what you haven’t yet given her-an invitation for a chance at a new life with a new partner. Don’t be so proud or insecure that you’d throw a genuine admirer to the wolves rather than run the risk of making a mistake. If you did, I don’t think I’d like you much . . . and I don’t think you would either.”
I pondered Tananda’s advice after she’d gone. There was one additional complication I hadn’t had the nerve to mention to her. Whatever Luanna’s feelings for me were, how would they change when she found out I’d used her scarf . . . her token of affection, to guide a pack of hunters to their target?
Chapter Fifteen:
“Everybody needs a career manager!”
-LADY MACBETH
“So where is he?” Aahz grumbled for the hundredth time … in the last five minutes.
The sun had been up for hours, or at least as up as it seemed to get in this dimension. Since my arrival in Limbo, I had never seen what I am accustomed to thinking of as full sunlight. Whether the constant heavy overcast condition which seemed to prevail during daylight hours was the result of magic or some strange meteorologic condition I was never sure, but it did nothing to alleviate the air of gloom that clung to the town of Blut like a shroud.
The whole team was impatient to get started, but Aahz was the only one who indulged himself in expressing his feelings as often … or as loudly. Of course, it might have been simply that he was making so much of a fuss that the others were willing to let him provide the noise for all of them rather than letting their own efforts get constantly upstaged.