Empire of Night (2015)
“It was not protected, but she’d been out here often enough to know that the guards had their routes and their favored stopping places. Avoid those and she was fine. Or she would be after she shucked the dress. She didn’t strip all the way down to her shift. That was white, meaning she’d streak across the night like a comet. She went to the third last layer—a dark green silk. Then she took one of the dark, discarded layers and tore it into a long strip to wrap over her bright hair.
Dagger in han...d, she made her way toward the north wall. Scaling it wouldn’t be an issue. According to Brom, the compound itself was an abandoned military training camp. They’d cleaned it up, but what it lacked was a proper fence. So far they’d encircled it with a makeshift barrier of wood, no taller than a man’s head.
She headed toward that wall, taking a circuitous route to avoid the guards. The ancestors continued to favor her, perhaps deciding she’d suffered quite enough punishment for any past offenses.MoreLess
Dagger in han...d, she made her way toward the north wall. Scaling it wouldn’t be an issue. According to Brom, the compound itself was an abandoned military training camp. They’d cleaned it up, but what it lacked was a proper fence. So far they’d encircled it with a makeshift barrier of wood, no taller than a man’s head.
She headed toward that wall, taking a circuitous route to avoid the guards. The ancestors continued to favor her, perhaps deciding she’d suffered quite enough punishment for any past offenses.MoreLess
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