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Authors: Evie Manieri
with her, and he certainly didn’t want to have it now.
She looked away from him, towards the shuttered window, as if she could see through it all the way to the snow-covered mountains of Norland, far across the sea.
go back some day. We
have
to. It’s our home.>
he reminded her.
she said, but he could feel her shoving back some emotion she didn’t want him to see. He had touched a nerve.
he told her.
she asked incredulously.
he reminded her quickly, his blood warming.
A blue flush tinted her pale cheeks.
he said, imparting a note of warning. He forced himself to stay calm.
Isa asked with bitter triumph. She beckoned him down the western hallway and around a sharp corner to the doorway of Daryan’s room. Then she thrust her white arm at the dark opening.
Eofar stepped past her and glanced inside the little room. The straw pallet was disarranged and the bedclothes were half on the floor, as if Daryan had risen hastily. he said defensively, he said, stepping closer to his little sister, and looking into her eyes,
A complicated mix of consternation and pique sputtered out of her, but before she had time to respond she suddenly stumbled, as if she’d been pushed from behind. She lost her balance and fell down on one knee. Over her head, Eofar saw the person who had just come around the corner and crashed into her.
The female slave, struggling to keep hold of a gigantic bundle clasped in her thin arms, took a moment to realise who she’d knocked into and then let out a sharp cry that pierced Eofar’s head like a dagger. ‘I’m sorry, my Lord! My Lady!’ the slave whispered, frantically reverting to the low tones in which the slaves were taught to address their masters. Rahsa, that was her name. She was new to the temple, but he remembered the unusual reddish tint of the hair straggling out from beneath her scarf, and the odd air she had about her.
‘They told me to open the shutters for the night and take these things up to the laundry. I didn’t know— Let me—’ And clearly without thinking, she shifted her bundle to one side and reached out for Isa’s arm to help her up.
Isa cried out in pain as the Shadari’s touch burned into hercold flesh – though of course Rahsa couldn’t hear her – and wrenched her arm away violently, but not before the cold of Isa’s skin bit into Rahsa’s fingers. The slave choked
She looked away from him, towards the shuttered window, as if she could see through it all the way to the snow-covered mountains of Norland, far across the sea.
go back some day. We
have
to. It’s our home.>
he reminded her.
Eofar stepped past her and glanced inside the little room. The straw pallet was disarranged and the bedclothes were half on the floor, as if Daryan had risen hastily. he said defensively,
A complicated mix of consternation and pique sputtered out of her, but before she had time to respond she suddenly stumbled, as if she’d been pushed from behind. She lost her balance and fell down on one knee. Over her head, Eofar saw the person who had just come around the corner and crashed into her.
The female slave, struggling to keep hold of a gigantic bundle clasped in her thin arms, took a moment to realise who she’d knocked into and then let out a sharp cry that pierced Eofar’s head like a dagger. ‘I’m sorry, my Lord! My Lady!’ the slave whispered, frantically reverting to the low tones in which the slaves were taught to address their masters. Rahsa, that was her name. She was new to the temple, but he remembered the unusual reddish tint of the hair straggling out from beneath her scarf, and the odd air she had about her.
‘They told me to open the shutters for the night and take these things up to the laundry. I didn’t know— Let me—’ And clearly without thinking, she shifted her bundle to one side and reached out for Isa’s arm to help her up.
Isa cried out in pain as the Shadari’s touch burned into hercold flesh – though of course Rahsa couldn’t hear her – and wrenched her arm away violently, but not before the cold of Isa’s skin bit into Rahsa’s fingers. The slave choked
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