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“All right then.” Stenides started up Stenides was momentarily
the stairs. He took Gen all the way to dumbstruck. “Gen, did grandfather
his cot and laid him gently on it. He teach you to do that?”
ruffled his younger brother’s hair. Gen looked away. “I’m going to be
“Cleon would have very sorry after the Thief of Eddis,” he said.
he’d pounded you to mush, but Stenides sat down on the bed
Phaedrus wouldn’t have been,” he beside him. “Gen,” he said. “You
said. “You want to watch out for him.” shouldn’t listen to the stories he tells
Gen looked up at his brother. you. Being the Thief …, it’s just a title.
Stenides was one of his favourite It doesn’t mean anything anymore.”
people, certainly his favourite sibling. Gen only looked stubborn and
Like Gen, Stenides didn’t fit well into Stenides was wise enough to give up
his martial world. He had a gift for the an argument he knew he couldn’t win.
mechanical and the mathematical. It “Well,” he said. “Promise me at least
was Stenides who had taught his that you won’t go jumping across any
younger brother to read and was most more light wells.”
often to be found absorbed in his Gen smiled, “All right,” he agreed
unwarlike hobby of watchmaking. In easily.
spite of being different, Stenides was “Good enough,” said Stenides and
well liked. Gen sighed. went away.
“Did you see my jump?” he asked. Gen lay back on his cot and looked
“Gods, yes I did,” said Stenides. “I at the earrings in his hand. His
thought I’d never exhale again. What grandfather usually stole cloak pins to
possessed you to do something that leave on the altar of the God of
insane?” Thieves. Admiring the way the light
“It wasn’t insane.” sparkled in the bits of crystal, Gen
“You might have been killed.” decided he preferred to steal earrings.
“Of course not,” said Gen, He’d lied to Stenides. Of course he
genuinely surprised. “I’ve practiced.” was going to continue jumping over
Stenides looked at him in horror. light wells.
“Do you mean to say that you have Someday, he promised himself, he
done that before?” was going to be next Thief of Eddis.
“Of course.” The End
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