Tamora Pierce - Street Magic

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While Briar and his teacher Rosethorn are helping the locals in Chammur, Briar realizes that all is not as it should be in Chammur's streets. As a former 'street rat' himself, he tends to have an interest in the affairs of local gangs. He discovers a gang known as the Vipers roaming through territory not their own. After further investigation, Briar discovers that the Vipers are the pet gang of a local Noblewoman.
While Briar investigates the Vipers, he discovers Evvy, a local girl with stone magic. At first, she runs away from him, but she gradually learns to trust him. When Evvy singularly refuses to study with local stone mage Jebilu Stoneslicer, Briar takes her training in hand himself. The Vipers attempt to kidnap her many times, so Lady Zenadia doa Atteneh can use Evvy's powers as a stone mage to further increase her riches. When they finally kidnap her, Briar comes to her rescue.

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Two days later the caravan to Laenpa rolled out of sight of the flame-colored cliffs of Chammur. They had entered a mountain pass where the stone colors were tan and gray, without so much as a hint of orange. When he realized he’d seen the last of the ancient city, Briar felt as if a weight had fallen from his shoulders.

“Let’s take another route home,” he called to Rosethorn as she rode ahead. “South or north, I don’t care.”

She nodded without looking back. Her attention was on the tumble of dirt and gravel to her right. She was seeking plants she might not know.

Briar’s own search for new growth in ground frequently scoured by floods and avalanches was interrupted by Evvy’s giggle of delight. He dropped back to where she rode, a scruffy student queen on camelback. She reigned from the top of her beast’s hump, Asa and the kittens in an open basket on her right, where she could keep an eye on them, and a traveling desk on her lap. Her stone alphabet was open on it. She showed the slate to Briar. On it she had written the large and small Q shakily.

“Q is for quartz!” she cried gleefully as her camel gave her a reproachful glare. In her other hand she held the surprise Briar had left her for when she got that far: not a single stone but a cloth strip to which six small quartz stones were fixed. “Crystal, blue, rose, green, smoky, and roo-rootle—rutilated!”

Briar grinned up at her. It was fun to make her happy. “You are easily amused,” he informed his student.

“I’m learning to read,” she replied gleefully, fingering her quartzes. “And I’m going to be a pahan of stones. Who wouldn’t be amused?”

“Your camel, for one, if you keep bouncing,” Briar reminded her. “Do you know what things you can do with quartz, young pahan?

“Nahim Zineer told me some. You can see, you can have peace, it can help for love spells…” She continued to recite. Briar listened contentedly. Listening to his student, he felt as if life were an adventure for the first time since he’d left Chammur. The only drawback was that with Evvy, there was no way of telling what the adventure would be—but that wasn’t such a bad thing. It would put some interest into those long hours on the road east.

He couldn’t wait to introduce her to his foster-sisters. He’d finally met another girl who was every bit as difficult as they were.

Glossary

Amir —prince, ruler of Chammur

Belbun —Chammuran term for four-legged rat

Bindi — paint, metal, or jewel placed between the eyebrows

Bunjingi — miniature tree form in which trunk is long, with a few branches balanced at the upper end

Cham — large sum coin in Chammur; silver equals twenty copper davs; gold cham equals twenty silver chams

Chammur Newtown — section of the city built on the open ground between the heights and the Qarwan River, colonized first by the wealthy, then the middle class

Chammur Oldtown — most ancient part of the city, the apartments and buildings in and on the heights, slum dwellings now except for the amir’s palace and Fortress Rock

Dav — copper is smallest coin in Chammur; silver dav equals three copper davs

Doa — daughter of (noble house only)

Doen — son of (noble house only)

Eknub — foreigner

Hammam — bathhouse

Hedax — rank similar to lieutenant

Lailan — Chammuran goddess of water, mercy, healing

Mohun — Chammuran god of silence, stone, dark and secret places

Mohunite — completely veiled follower of Mohun (both sexes)

Mutabir — head of law enforcement and courts in Chammur

Pahan — teacher, mage

Shaihun — Chammuran god of desert, winds, sandstorms, serious mischief and destruction

Shakkan — miniature tree form like an elongated S pointing to right of viewer

Souk — market

takamer (m), takameri(f) — rich person

tesku — leader of a street gang

thukdak — Chammuran slang for street rat

zernamus — parasite like a tick, one that survives by living off the rich

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