A Company of Heroes Book Two: The Fabulist (25 page)

“Perhaps the best thing to do is to go back to Tamlaght,” the pirate offers. “I suspect that their disappearances had a great deal to do with our friends in Blavek, just as yours did.”

“I suppose you’re right. I probably couldn’t do any more good here than over there.”

“Probably more.”

“I know.”

“Look here,” puts in Wittenoom, refilling Bronwyn’s glass and his own. “Let’s make a toast to our success!”

They raise their glasses and let the rims touch gently; Bronwyn with a smile grim in its artificiality listens to the treble clink with much the same solidification of her head as if she had just heard a prison door slam shut.

“To us!” toasts Wittenoom. “We three are taking with us all the best of art, science and industry. With that we can do anything!”

THE END OF BOOK TWO