Chronicles- A Devil's Daughters Crossover- Book Two(Published Feb 2017)

Setting Sail

    It was cold on the docks, looking out of the waters of Samo'san, and taking in all that the harbor had to offer. There was The Lady's Shack. The Lady's Pub. The Lady Livery and The Inn of The Lady. It seemed that everywhere that Malice looked, The Lady, was quite prominent.
    "What's wrong?" Mia asked, as she slid from the shadows of a nearby ship, and landed like a feather on the wooden planks beside Malice.
    "My nose is twitching!"
    "That's never a good sign!" Mia laughed and shook her head. "And what does your twitch have to tell you?"
     "That trouble is afoot in this fair city!"
    "We haven't even gotten into the city yet!" Nyx grumbled, hating the thought of having to 'sail' anywhere.
    "Because she's not in the city!" Malice sighed. "Seriously, were you listening at all?"
    "Yeah! I heard you, you said there would be whores!" He shot back at her.
    "You did say there would be whores, Malice!" Mia reminded her.
    "She also said there would be a hunt!"
    "We need to find a ship and crew!" Malice ignored him, and pulling her long black cloak about her shoulders she led them away from the docks and through the shabby streets of the waterfront, looking for the tell tale signs of the local thievery guild. Surely, this part of Samo'san would be crawling with them.
   Turning a corner, she saw a curious symbol, one she had not laid eyes on in quite some time. A simple flower, a rose shaded in black... "A chapter of the Black Rose? Here, in the open?"
   "What was that?" Nyx mumbled, following close behind the Valkyrie.
   "Hw, odd?" Malice muttered something in reply as she made her way over to the young guard, a female of ten and six perhaps?
    She was tall for her age, with long brown hair that was braided away from her face, and eerie gray eyes; complete, with an incomplete tattoo on her right sword hand. "Mia, look at the her hand..." Malice grinned as Mia approached the establishment. "And to my right, above the door!"
    She grinned even wider as she watched the violet eyes move about, and the sly smile that crept across that beautiful face of hers. "The Black Rose, well I'll be damned!"
   "You already are!" Nyx laughed. "Are there whores inside?"
     "In fact, there are! If, you can handle them!"
     "What do you mean, if I can handle them? Do you forget who you're talking to?"
     "You will find whores and coin a plenty in that there gambling den. In the middle of the day as it is now, you'll find every longshoreman and pirate that would be, rubbing elbows with one another inside. Go, see for yourself! Listen for news of Samo'ana, and under no circumstances, is Bathsheba to be left alone."
    "And where are you going, that I have to pull babysitter duty?"
     "I'm going to try and find us a boat." She flashed a wicked grin his way, "And your female is coming with me!"
    "Then under no circumstances, is she, to be left alone!" Nyx grinned back at her, and made for the door handle.
   "And you are?" The female guard finally spoke.
   "Your worst nightmare!" He replied, and the female looked to another.
  "She, may enter!" The female replied when her eyes were back on his. "You, will need to bathe first!"
   Nyx let his jaw drop and the howling that let off in the back ground as Mia and Malice laughed themselves towards the docks...
   "Did you tell  him anything?" Malice inquired as the ships came into view.
   "Of the Black Rose? Nadda! But he's a smart male, he'll figure it out!" Mia laughed and made towards the first boat.

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      "Should we not have gone with them?" Lync asked, as he followed Navina along the wooded path.
     "They search for a boat, Lync, we will not find my brother by the docks!" She grinned, pushing on up towards the hills.
     "And we'll find him out here?"
     "There is a temple a top that ridge, he will be there, waiting!" She sighed and shook her head. "He's always waiting, like a good little soldier!"
    "Waiting for what?"
    "Her!"
    She couldn't help but hate the female, not even able to speak her name for fear of the emotions it would drudge up. With each new set of memories that returned, Navina remembered a little more; including her immense dislike, for Khia.
    "She's been through a lot, you said  so yourself!"
   He was trying to make conversation, trying to save the situation as it were, but she was so far done, having all those feelings, all those...
    "She may have been taken from her people, but in the end, she chose to live without him."
    "But they were mated, she is his, forever, Vina!"
    "They were betrothed, there's a difference! At on point, Kordahn had been betrothed to another, after Khia had been gone for many years and all had thought her lost..."
     "That was over five hundred years ago..."
    "And yet it feel like yesterday, that I watched my brother fall to his knees before his shrine, begging the Gods to release him from the chaos that bound them!"
    "You females can get pretty crazy at times!" He agreed with her, and she spun around and hit him in the chest. "What was that for?"
    "I am not difficult!" Navina replied.
    "I said crazy, not difficult!" Lync laughed, "But you can hit me again I kind of liked it!"
    "Did you now!" She grinned, and up on her tip toes she went, craving that long, sweet kiss from his lips. "So, I'm not all bad?" She added, and bit his lower lip.
    The blood trickled down his chin, and she could not only see the lust in his eyes, but she could feel it, smell it in the erotic scent that surrounded them. "This temple you speak of, does it offer privacy?" He growled, "Or do we risk an audience? Right here..." He groaned against her ear, "...right now?"
    Gods he was so handsome, so incredibly magnificent with his dark spiked hair and those emerald green eyes. "Whatever you..." She had started, with his hands at her shoulders, peeling away the layers of fabric that surrounded her; but there came another voice, and all thoughts of a sinful nature, were set aside.
    "Not exactly what I thought I would find on my journey today!"
    "Shit!" She gasped, hurrying to cover her now naked chest. "It is not..."
    "You are mated!" Kordahn shook his head, "No words are needed, though I would suggest a more private place, as this trail is traveled often!"