Fortune – Kristin Cast

The stall’s table is stacked with honeyed fruits, smoked meats, and small loaves of crusty bread. Declan and I drop onto a narrow bench. Fennel spots us from across the market and rushes over, Cinder clinging to his back like a furry pirate captain. Declan starts picking at the offerings, eating figs and slices of cured meat with his fingers, while I tear off bits of bread and assemble apple, pear, and meat finger sandwiches like it’s a spread for adult Lunchables. Fennel collapses half under the table, half in the sun, snoring contentedly with his head on my foot.

My toes go numb, but I don’t have the heart to move him. Dav prowls a few paces away, scanning the market like everyone’s a potential assassin. A boy no older than ten wanders too close to a spice stall, fingers hovering over a pyramid of garlic bulbs. Dav barks a command harsh enough to make the kid flinch and nearly topple the whole display.

“My queen,” Declan murmurs and lifts Cinder onto his lap. Immediately, she starts purring and licking honey from his shirt. He strokes her head with a gentleness that makes me wish I could curl up in his lap too. Cinder rubs her sticky head under his chin, and he laughs.

It’s a low, rumbling sound that sends my pulse skittering. I tear off another piece of bread, more forcefully than necessary. “We need to talk about what we’re doing,” I say under my breath, keeping my smile pasted on for anyone who might be watching. “We can’t just wait around for Fortune to reappear.” Declan leans forward, elbows braced on his knees, voice pitched low enough to hide beneath the market chatter. “Maybe there’s a way to speak to the queens.

They have influence, power. If anyone else knows how magick works here it’s them.” He reaches for another fig, and a glob of honey plops onto Cinder’s head. She blinks up at him, offended, while he chuckles and wipes her fur clean. A blur of silk skirts and jangling beads barrels toward the stall. Three girls no older than sixteen skid to a stop in front of me, breathless and wide- eyed. “Oh, by the gods, it’s her! You are truly spectacular,” the one in the middle gasps, clasping her hands like I just descended from a cloud.

Her cheeks are flushed pink from running, her crystal-blue eyes glittering like chips of polished quartz. Gold bangles slide down her wrists, clinking as she bounces on her toes. “The Story Witch,” the girl on her left breathes, her round face framed by golden curls she immediately wraps nervously around her finger.

The cluster of freckles scattered across her nose crinkle with her wide grin.

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