CHAPTER NINE
I looked up at Ben with a mixture of amusement and horror. “Maybe we should go ask someone else.”
Abla stiffened before she spun around to face us. She marched in our direction and wagged a finger at me. “Not yet! Not until I’ve earned that coin!”
Ben clutched the bag close to himself as she stopped before us. “Then you know where this Dakin is?”
She crossed her arms over her chest and nodded. “Of course I do. He’s just down that way.” She nodded at a narrow path to our left that led deeper into the sunken area of the city. “Take that for a mile and you’ll find some caves in the ground. He’s the third cave on the right.”
Ben smiled and dug into his coin bag. He tossed a baron at the woman who eagerly caught it in both hands. “Many thanks to you.”
He tucked th
