Chapter Eight
As he crossed the road, he glanced up, hoping to see the stars, but they had largely disappeared behind thickening streamers of low-hanging, ragged clouds, lit from below by the lights of the city, riding a rising wind just beginning to moan around the inn’s chimney.
He looked up and down the street, then finally spotted Tevera directly across from him, at the mouth of an alley. She gestured to him frantically. He crossed the street, and she grabbed his arm and jerked him into the darkness between the buildings. “No one must see us together!” she whispered.
“But—”
“Farther in.” She pulled him along. “There aren’t any lights back here. We should be safe.”
Kriss followed. After a few metres, the alley turned left, then right again. Around that corner was a rectangular spac
