37. Loose Ends
37 Loose Ends Jess relaxed as she walked down the cobbled laneway in Vallantia that she knew led into the Scholar’s Quarter. Not that she’d spent much time in this area; the conversations in the bars and coffee houses tended to bore her. Today it suited her purpose. She wore her deep blue cloak from Ilarith, the edges decorated with the concentric patterns in silver around the edges, with its deep hood drawn up to obscure her face. Underneath she wore one of her formal gowns, a deep blue with silver thread to match the cloak with the crest of a Companion of the Fourth. She would much rather be wearing her old familiar set of hunting leathers but on this occasion she guessed she would get more cooperation by appearing as the Lady Jessalan, Companion of the Fourth, complete with Elite tra
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