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Inauspicious Start to the Day
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Despite his mismatched eyes, sixteen-year-old Tomas Larelli had never
seen the future. That didn’t keep everyone from assuming he could, nor did
his scruples compel him to deny it. After all, with a face that only a monkey
could love, he had to find ways to get people to like him.
“Oi, Tomas.” Old Gian waved from a neighboring boat. “Thanks again
for teaching me that knot you invented. It’s helped secure my nets. How did
you ever figure it out?”
Tomas raised his oars and tapped under his green eye. “Diviner’s
Sight!”
Or a little bit of imagination. His mind had painted the image of the
rope, weaving its way through its own loops. The result was the dozens of
fish flopping at his feet. With a nod, he resumed his rowing.
His boat glided through the Inland Sea’s placid blue waters, passing
between his island village on the right and the Barrows on the mainland to
the left. He shuddered and formed a ring with his thumb and finger to ward
off evil. Tortured spirits of humans, sacrificed to the orc gods a thousand
years ago, still haunted the towering mounds.
On the other side of the Barrows the wooden pyramid of Solaris came
into view, and then beyond it, the red-tiled roofs of the town of Lorium.
His stomach fluttered. Soon…
“Oi, Tomas,” a croaking voice called from the docks.
Tomas squinted as he rowed closer. A sablewood bireme, flying a
crimson flag with a nine-pointed silver sun, loomed large over the far
wharf. Its black hull made it difficult to pick out the figure waving from the
closest dock. Probably Mauritizio, since he was always the first out to buy
the best catches. The fine linen shirt and trousers he wore didn’t match his
sun-roughened skin.
Mauritizio craned his neck. “Another bumper catch, I see.”
Grinning, Tomas tapped beneath his eye yet again. “Diviner’s Sight
can’t go wrong.” Nor could studying the currents and tides, the way they
swept lines through the Inland Sea. Nobody else had to know his secret,
though. He gestured to his boat’s bottom, where the fish continued their
desperate thrashing.
Mauritizio took hold of a pylon and leaned over. “Whitefins. Very nice.
I’m feeling generous today. I’ll give you a copper draka for two.” He tossed
a rope.
Catching it, Tomas moored his boat to the pylon. He looked up and
grinned. The foreign bireme in town would drive up the price of fish. “Two
copper drakas for three is generous. What you offer is banditry.”
Mauritizio looked over his shoulder to where the other fishmongers
were now approaching like sharks to blood. He turned back. “Deal.”
It was a fair exchange, and though he could’ve waited for the other
fishmongers to come and haggle for more, Mauritizio had always been
kind.
Not to mention, there was somewhere Tomas had to be. His hand
strayed to the vial in his pocket.
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