SFFS 11/7/15 Impcatcher

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This is another snippet from Impcatcher. Tal Djandiss, the Impcatcher of the title, has captured a creature and carried it to the market to show to someone.

My favourite sorceress was slumped in her stall in the market, boredom writ in considerable detail across her face. I swung my wriggling horror into her sight. I wasn't sure quite what I'd bagged - it was akin to a centipede, with a dozen legs on each side of its snakelike indigo body.

She looked at my pet. Pest. Sorry, slip of the tongue.

“Most men would offer a girl flowers” she said archly.

“I thought this was prettier.” I let her get a good look at it. “Thought you'd find it interesting.”

She pulled a face at me, but with a hint of a smile lurking in the background. “I have no idea why you're convinced I like unusual, hideous monsters.”

There was an obvious reply. “You like me, don't you?”

She didn't even try to credit my words with a response.

Who says romance is dead? As always, comments welcomed! 

Come back on Tuesday when I have a guest blogger, Aurora Springer, and a snippet from her new novel, Grand Master's Game!