Tilda stopped walking. For a moment she had plain forgotten that she and Dugan were not actually traveling together anymore. She bit her lip, stopped biting it, and turned around to face him.
"That girl and the old knight want a traveling companion as far as Camp Town, and to a Jobian temple there."
Dugan looked unconvinced. "Just you, eh? Could have sworn a thumb was jerked at me a time or two."
"The Duchess asked what the smell in the room was."
(from The Sable City by M. Edward McNally)
8*/10. The full review is here.
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