“Or it might have been Mayetti’s private dealings. She was from the Western Kingdom, and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone out there was vexed enough to send killers after her,” Koshmarnyk said. As much as he’d rather offer the truth, neither Davshil nor anyone else at Gildya was his friend, and giving his enemies openings for accusations or suspicions would only make the uneasy relationship between adepts and arcanists worse.
“Adept Ervan seems to think there’s some bigger plot at play.”
Koshmarnyk didn’t hide his grimace. “Ervan.”
“I know you hate him, but he has good reasons to suspect foul play,” Davshil said, rushing to his fellow adept’s defense. “A couple of weeks ago, thieves hit one of our storehouses… They almost made it away with a lot of our explosive devices.” Davshil twit
