Shadow and Bone

easy with two heavily armed soldiers taking up most of the
room.
The coach hit a bump and jolted forward.
“Is it safe?” I asked. “To be traveling at night?”
“No,” Fedyor said. “But it would be considerably more
dangerous to stop.”
“Because people are after me now?” I said sarcastically.
“If not now, then soon.”
I snorted. Fedyor raised his eyebrows and said, “For
hundreds of years, the Shadow Fold has been doing our
enemies’ work, closing off our ports, choking us, making us
weak. If you’re truly a Sun Summoner, then your power could
be the key to opening up the Fold—or maybe even destroying
it. Fjerda and the Shu Han won’t just stand by and let that
happen.”
I gaped at him. What did these people expect from me? And
what would they do to me when they realized I couldn’t
deliver? “This is ridiculous,” I muttered.
Fedyor looked me up and down and then smiled slightly.
“Maybe,” he said.
I frowned. He was agreeing with me, but I still felt insulted.
“How did you hide it?” Ivan asked abruptly.
“What?”
“Your power,” Ivan said impatiently. “How did you hide
it?”
“I didn’t hide it. I didn’t know it was there.”
“That’s impossible.”
“And yet here we are,” I said bitterly.
“Weren’t you tested?”
A dim memory flashed through my mind: three cloaked
figures in the sitting room at Keramzin, a woman’s haughty
brow.