Thieves World 2 – Tales From The Vulgar Unicorn by Asprin, Robert

night by then, and I do not want to involve him in this.’ Walegrin nodded

without argument. ‘I understand. I’ll come by at midnight. He should be long

asleep by then, unless you keep him awake.’ Illyra sensed it would be useless to

argue. She watched silently as he swept the pile of baubles, the knife, and the

shard into one pouch, wincing slightly as he dribbled the last beads from her

sight.

‘As is your custom, payment will not be made until the question is answered.’

Illyra nodded. Walegrin had spent many years around her mother learning many of

the S’danzo disciplines and rousing his father’s explosive jealousy. The leather

webbing of his kilt creaked as he stood up. The moment for farewell came and

passed. He left the stall in silence.

A path cleared when Walegrin strode through a crowd. He noticed it here, in this

bazaar where his memories were of scrambling through the aisles, taunted,

cursed, fighting, and thieving. In any other place he accepted the deference

except here, which had once been his home for a while.

One of the few men in the throng who could match his height, a dark man in a

smith’s apron, blocked his way a moment. Walegrin studied him obliquely and

guessed he was Dubro. He had seen the smith’s short aquiline companion several

times in other roles about the town without learning the man’s true name or

calling; they each glanced to one side to avoid a chance meeting.

At the entrance to the bazaar, a tumble-down set of columns still showing traces

of the Ilsig kings who had them built, a man crept out of the shadows and fell

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