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Flare’s potty mouth didn’t bother me as long as the venom wasn’t aimed in my direction. Growing up at the orchard, I’d heard all sorts of dirty talk. Who fucked who. Which woman they’d watched undress. What the local whore did at the tavern. I just assumed that was the way young men talked. Perhaps Shadow ran his plantation differently. All I knew was that that kind of talk didn’t disappear with age.
“Sorry, Grandma,” Flare said, starting Phantom up again.
Flare cracked a smile. He clearly got a kick out of being the entertaining clown of the group, with Phantom spurring him on. I wasn’t so amused. Not if a hunter out for my blood roamed free within the palace.
Shadow crossed his arms. “Can you quit being an ass for one moment? If there’s a hunter in here somewhere, we have to protect Snow.”
That quieted Phantom. “I smelled something strange in one of the corridors. I thought one of the soldiers had relieved himself. It doesn’t smell like panther piss.”
“It’s what they’ve been feeding us,” Shadow explained. “Makes it smell weird.”
“We have to warn the king,” I said.
If there was a hunter in here, it was either here for me or to kill more of the dracos, and that must be prevented at all costs.
