Chapter 29

I slumped into the chair, feeling my defeat crush deep into my bones. What now? See if someone else was hiring? Like the brothel? The idea made me numb, hollow, and maybe that would be how it would feel lying on a bed with a stranger on top of me. I might as well be dead. 

Right now, I wasn't though. I could still find a way to survive the winter. I could steal food, but without sight, I couldn't see who might be watching me and then afterward throwing me in jail. Terrible idea. 

I gathered every ounce of will I had left and rose from the table. I would go get Lee and Jade at the very least. After that... Well, I didn't have it in me to think that far ahead.

I left the tavern the same way I came in, though much slower, listening over the taps of my walking stick for where Faust had gone with the wolf pup. But the hallways were empty, the rooms beyond silent other than the main part of the tavern, which I avoided.