Two Dark Reigns (Three Dark Crowns #3)(109)

THE SEAWATCH MOUNTAINS




On the side of a road that curves eastward through the mountains, Mirabella raises her arm and flags down a passing coach.

“Have you room for another passenger?” she asks. “I have coin enough.” She holds it out in a small purse, and the driver weighs it in her hand before nodding.

“You a naturalist?” she asks, gesturing to Mirabella’s hood.

Mirabella smiles and tucks the woodpecker deeper into her collar.

“No. I am only borrowing him.”

“Aye. Get on in, then. We’re going all the way to the capital, if that suits you.”

“That suits me fine,” she says, and opens the door. “For I am expected there.”





To be concluded . . .