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I didn’t have a chance to respond adequately, though, because footsteps crunched behind me. Whirling, I saw Jillian and Darnell, looking annoyed to be back at the pond.
Gotta go, thief. I have some boots to steal back, I told Kas, slamming my mind shut on our connection. I needed to focus. Stepping in front of my valuable lotus haul to hide it, I palmed a pair of knives and nodded at Jillian, who was wearing all my stolen clothes.
“Funny. I seem to remember that outfit showing off my curves. Just makes you look more like Janus.”
Darnell snorted, and Jillian shoved at him, giving me the opening I needed to leap at her, knives angled to wound her pride more than her body.
“Get naked for me, bitch,” I cooed in her ear, ramming the hilt of my knife into her temple and knocking her out cleanly while Darnell simply watched with an amused expression.
CHAPTER TWELVE
KANA
Kas and I spoke off and on as each of our teams explored, slowly trading intel and images until the sun began to set, as I stayed careful not to use too much ice magic around my team.
As we exchanged mental images of the sun’s location - without bonus cock this time - I gradually gained an understanding of how our two sections were laid out.
And although I didn’t have much else to add to their rumors of gobbelin abilities, I was grateful for the heads up. We needed to be looking for better weapons or making them if we were going to come across creatures like that.
Both of our teams had concluded the same thing about the four books being for four different sections, and I now believed the four areas made up a large square, with Flora and Fauna being next to each other in the southeast and southwest corners.
If Janus’s team in the Prophecy section was adjacent to Flora, and north according to the flower field drawn on our map, that meant the History team was diagonal from me and north of Fauna.
I might not have a direct path there, but Luca, Kas, and Blaise should.
Kas and I hadn’t quite formulated a full plan yet, but if we didn’t find each other first, we’d agreed to work hard to steal the Prophecy and History books, then meet after and work together to avoid losing. There were still so many unknowns that the illusion of success was possible to hold, though I knew the labyrinth wasn’t likely to be that neat and easy.
In between trading thoughts with Kassian, I was keeping a very close eye on Jillian. She was extra pissy now that she was back in her ripped dress and I was snug in my boots, and she’d been even stingier sharing information from theBook of Flora. I could deal with that, but I knew if I could mindspeak with Kas, she could be trading notes with her brother. Darnell might have a buddy too, for that matter.
It was a fucking balancing act, keeping myself in the lead so I could gradually steer us toward the Fauna section, but keeping an eye on my two dumbass teammates following behind.
Not to mention it had proved impossible to hide the giant lotus blossom from them, and with theBook of Flora, there was no downplaying how valuable the plant was, either.
“Do you think we’ll run into any gobbelins in here, now that they’re apparently risen from the dead?” I asked them casually when we paused again for the night, listening and spreading my senses carefully to catch any spike of fear or possible hints that they already knew the answer.
Jillian scoffed, though, and without actually tipping my hand and invading her mind, I didn’t sense that she had any hidden thoughts on the matter.
