CHAPTER 15
“And you’re sure it said ‘Viper’?” asked Longinus for the umpteenth time, visibly agitated.
They were walking rapidly away from the baths, which now crawled with guards. Rory had quickly clambered up the wet rock face after having found the body, but all she had found in the space above it was darkness, rock, and a tiny gap through which the water flowed. Whoever had killed the man must have deposited the body up there by coming in through the baths. There was no way the body would have fit through that gap.
“Yeah, I’m positive. I can read, you know.”
“Well, your hair suggests otherwise, so forgive me for being sceptical.”
“My hair?”
“Yes, the sure sign of a thinking man is in the neatness of his chin and the grooming of his hair. With the state you’re in, I’m surprised yo
