Red Seas Under Red Skies: The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book Two

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Locke says he is beginning to understand how the Grey King felt, because if he could destroy Karthain he would. As Locke and Jean walk into the nearby room they find numerous men pointing crossbows at them and the woman tells them to hand their weapons over slowly. Locke Lamora makes for an engaging rogue, and Camorr a fascinating and gorgeously realized setting, a city to rival Lankhmar, Amber, and Viriconium. They get more extravagant as you head up; the sixth floor is a waterfall with bronze coins falling instead of water, the seventh has a sculpture of volcanic islands with silver coins for the islands and gold for the sea and lava.

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Locke says that by doing that he will show Locke’s employer that he has been compromised and that things will start to get really bad for the Sinspire then. These islands are not natural like the mainland, they are made of endless quantities of black elderglass. Locke thinks he must have been imagining it and Jean says he didn’t hear her say anything more than good evening either.However, we are told that Locke and Jean are cheating at that very moment and their plan is soon to unfold. He claims to have confessed to the cheating because he is tired of this secondhand connection to their employer, wishing to instead work at the Sinspire. Stragos has a file from a personal connection he has within the Bondsmagi – it is full of stories about Locke and Jean’s exploits in Camorr. Under Zamira's rules, the scrub watch have the opportunity to become full Orchids by participating in a raid on another ship. Later, in the Sinspire, Locke approaches Selendri and tells her straight that for the past two years he and Jean have been cheating in each and every game they’ve participated.

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The next day one of the boys in Jean’s gang says that another gang, the Black Sleeves, have been causing them trouble. Locke and Jean leave her a gold solari coin for that promise and are led away by the poisoner’s bodyguard through a number of passages, blindfolded – Locke and Jean understand that the poisoner needs to protect her location so don’t mind. After Locke and Jean are gone and Requin discovers what they’ve done, he tells Selendri that the paintings were replicas.Jean admires the various stalls on the numerous tiers of the Crescent and takes note of a couple killer birds that are used as the equivalent of a guard dog. As one man walks towards Jean with his purse, he asks what his name is before suddenly lunging at him with a dagger. You Don't Want to Catch This: Locke and Jean pretend to contract Slipskin, which appears akin to leprosy.