Chapter 4
Thorat muttered something about going up to the palace to secure his hire, saying that he would meet them at a tavern up the hill after midnight. He abandoned Eppie with the two women, who hauled her off to the baths, where they set about scrubbing every trace of the last three years off her skin, leaving her pink and uneasy in new clothes that made her feel like a stranger to herself. It was Midsummer and supposed to be the time of change, but still she couldn’t feel at ease in her guise as a respectable young citizen of Anamat. Not even Squid would recognize her, let alone the watch, never mind the prince of Slaradun, who probably hadn’t even noticed her.
Eppie followed Darna up to the palace with the prince’s purse lodged tight beneath her belt, practically burning a hole in
