The Black Khan. Ausma Khan Zehanat

The Black Khan - Ausma Khan Zehanat


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wasn’t sure she could believe that, despite what she’d heard firsthand, but there was no time to discuss it further. Reinforcements from the Crimson Watch were already on their way.

      “Free us!” The prisoners in the cells called out to their improbable gathering of allies.

      Sinnia moved to obey, but Illarion turned to Salikh. “What is your command, Mudjadid?”

      “If you unlock these cells, you will never reach the Plague Wing as you hoped. You must leave us at once.”

      “Must I also leave you, Mudjadid?”

      “I could only hinder you in your plan.”

      “Then flee with your daughters to the graveyard of the ships.”

      Salikh’s pale eyes were kind. “I cannot leave my followers to suffer when they’ve done everything I asked. And there is more to accomplish.”

      He spoke to the men in the cells in the dialect of Marakand—his instructions deliberate and fierce. “You’ve done so much of what I’ve asked, but my daughters must go free. Forgive me that we must remain.”

      He was using the Claim. The men in the cells grew calm.

      “As you command, Mudjadid,” promised one.

      Larisa’s protest was firm: she refused to abandon her father to his fate at the Ahdath’s hands. That she had found him was a miracle surely granted by the One; she wouldn’t leave him behind. “If you won’t come with us, Father, neither will we leave. We’ll make our stand here together.”

      Salikh shook his head, unable to explain his will or to describe his purpose. He gestured weakly at Illarion, who spoke in a cutting voice, to return them to the urgency of the moment.

      “Your father knows what he’s doing. You need to get out of Jaslyk while you can.”

      “You won’t make it to the Plague Wing alive,” Larisa warned him. “Come back with us to the graveyard of the ships.”

      Illarion shook his head. “I can’t. Not now that I have the talisman.” He turned to Sinnia. “Companion, follow them to Black Aura, where the First Oralist has been taken prisoner. She sent me to deliver you from Jaslyk, and now she has need of you in turn.”

      Sinnia nodded at him briskly, taken aback by this news.

      “Yours is a fool’s errand,” Larisa persisted. “They will hunt you into the ground. Better that you escort the Companion safely back to Black Aura.”

      “I can’t,” he said again. “I have a mission to complete. You needn’t worry—anyone who could betray me here I’ve already killed.” He touched the crimson splash at his throat. “This will get me into the Plague Wing.”

      Elena cleaned her sword on the Technologist’s smock. “What is it you seek to find?”

      His eyes met hers, a banked flame in their depths. “Did you never learn why these prisoners submit to the Ahdath’s tortures—why these Basmachi in particular were captured by the Crimson Watch?”

      She frowned at him, unwilling to admit her ignorance of anything concerning her men.

      “They keep the Technologist focused on themselves to draw him away from the Plague Wing. Each man here volunteered. Each has a loved one who suffers the torments of the Plague Wing. It’s what keeps them here, deflecting the Technologist’s attention.”

      Her voice softer now, Elena asked, “And what of you, Ahdath?”

      Illarion shrugged without meeting her eyes. “They have my sister. It’s why I joined the Salikhate. Now go. You’ve delayed too long as it is.”

      Elena’s voice was matter-of-fact as she gathered up her weapons. She had shut her father out of her mind, to force herself to focus on their plan.

      “Take the Companion to Black Aura,” she told Larisa. “Father must decide his course for himself, and you know the way back, so you won’t be needing me. I’ll meet you in Marakand. This Ahdath won’t make it to the Plague Wing on his own.”

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