Chapter Forty-Seven: Luka Found

Silvia POV

I'm having a hard time understanding Tidiane-as-a-wolf. I feel a Fer-growl rumble in my chest and try to remind Fer to be patient because Tidiane is a shapeshifter and not an actual werewolf.

Cook has caught up to us and is crouching down. Elbows on his knees, hands hanging down. He looks around and sniffs.

"Ugh," he grumbles, then says something unintelligible.

I begin to wish I had chosen travel companions who were better communicators.

Tidiane shimmers and re-emerges as Mrs Choudry.

It's disconscerting to see her fling her long black braid over her shoulder and raise a finger at me as she says, "Sewer Trolls."

I actually feel myself turn green. Of course I should have expected this. A city with so many living beings, especially magical ones, is going to be a land of milk and honey to a sewer troll. Or a land of ... ugh ... I can't bring myself to think of what flows in the sewers beneath the city. The viaduct tunnels run underground. Luka was imprisoned there and s