King's Gambit: Part Four

Esperanza, July 20, 1992

Artemis and David have been at the small house on the beach for four days, trying to decide what to do. The library was acceptable as a base of operations when the focus of their activities was the palace, but that’s no longer the case, and David decides Artemis would be better off with access to a real bed and a refrigerator stocked full of healthy food. Artemis doesn’t object to the change in venue. He’s subdued for most of the short trip back, brooding silently over...