Suited by Jo Anderton - Sample Chapters

ing up at Kichlan – who looked just as shocked as I felt – and nodding. “You are here too, good.”

Kichlan caught sight of Yicor, and his surprise slid into disapproval. “What’s going on?” He had never liked the old shop owner who had helped me find Valya when I had nowhere else to go.

Possibly because, even though he could see debris, the man was not a collector. Neither was Valya. They had escaped the puppet men and the violence of being suited, when the rest of us had not. Kichlan said collecting was our duty, and doing otherwise was irresponsible. Somehow, I didn’t believe that was what truly bothered him about the man. Rather, I think he wished Lad could have escaped too.

“Time for talk,” Valya said. She grabbed Kichlan and dragged him back to the chair. “Then time for action. Can’t wait any longer.”

I fixed Yicor with a stern expression. “This is about the signs, isn’t it?”

He gave a sheepish, guilty look. “Ah, I should have known you’d work it out.”

“Signs?” Kichlan allowed himself to be seated – though I couldn’t see what choice he had – and scowled at us over his shoulder.

“You might know them as being nearly crushed in a collapsing sewer,” I explained, as Yicor and I obeyed Valya’s imperious gestures, and joined Kichlan at the suddenly crowded table. “And what the Keeper’s door did to my suit.”

“The Keeper. Again.”

“Watch your tone,” Vlaya snapped. “Be thankful