Skate the Thief by Jeff Ayers EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Jeff Ayers
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Sword & Sorcery Fantasy
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In which a question is asked, a blanket is
acceptably cleaned, and a deal is struck.
Skate peered into the shadowy room through the window. She sniffed and
brushed a snowflake off the end of her nose, careful not to shift too much of
her weight around. Twitch grunted anyway, muttering under his breath. She
ignored him. His job was to hold her up, and there was no avoiding some
movement, especially in this cold.
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Some people liked the snow. Those people are stupid.
“Well?” Twitch asked, his small voice straining to both be heard clearly
and stay quiet. He managed to do neither, so Skate shushed at her feet while
she dug her heel into his shoulder.
She turned her attention back to the dark room. A glow from a light
upstairs helped her see shelves upon shelves of books lining the walls, with
unidentifiable shapes resting with them. That junk could be valuable,
maybe enough for the pair of them to meet their quota for the week, even
the month. The books were treasures, but the Boss didn’t like trying to find
buyers for stuff like that.
“I’ll go in and grab what I can.”
Twitch nodded his blond head impatiently. Skate pulled a wire from the
waist of her shabby pants. She slipped the thin piece of metal through the
hairbreadth crack in the window. There were not many windows that this
sort of simple device would work on in the area, but this building was old
and showing its wear; the stones and large windows showed it to be older
than anything around it.
The pair had observed the house for a week and determined that the
tenant was a shut-in, an old man who spent all of his time in his upstairs
rooms. He only came downstairs to get a new book off one of his shelves.
Though elderly, he seemed spry, carrying heavy-looking volumes up and
down the open stone stairs set in the wall with ease. His upstairs light
stayed lit all night. Twitch had guessed that the old man liked to have it on
in case he woke and needed to use the chamber pot. Skate had agreed and
pointed out that the white color of the light probably meant it was magical.
Magic in the house meant money. It was a good mark, and Boss Marshall
would be pleased with whatever they could grab. They just had to get Skate
in first.
“I’ll leave the window open and toss down what I can. Once I’ve
grabbed my fill, you’ll need to help me out—”
“I know,” Twitch hissed, his voice strained with effort. “J-just hurry
up!” He was starting to shake, and it wasn’t only from the cold; his muscles
were clearly tiring.
“Oh, fine, you big baby,” Skate said, and the soft click of the latch
disengaging shot through the alley. The window swung outward, and she
caught it to keep it from slamming against the outer wall. “Lift up,” she
said, pulling herself over the threshold and rolling silently into the shadowy
den.
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