Chapter 16 book 3 is live
Tea and Empathy:
Once they were all settled around the well-stocked tea table, Brinnid said, “You seem of a purpose today, miss. What’s afoot?”
“What’s afoot?” repeated Ellika, blinking rapidly. “Well--I should ask the same of you! Skulking around the Bloody One’s Temple and no one telling me why.”
“You know why, I’ve dedicated!” said Sedra.
“I don’t see why Brinnid has to go there, too. He’s not dedicated,” Ellika retorted. She switched on a blindingly charming smile and poured the tea. “But that’s neither here nor there. I just haven’t seen you, it seems. We’ve all been so busy, you at Harla’s Hill, me at the Healer’s--at the Lovers’ Temple.”
“Elly, we saw you at breakfast,” Sedra drawled.
“You had your nose in the paper,” sniffed Ellika. “I doubt you even see your food let alone the rest of us.”
“And yet I manage to eat,” said her sister.
“Don’t you mind it, Brinnid--her selfish addiction to newsprint?”
“There is nothing objectionable whatsoever in Her Highness’s conduct that I have noticed,” said Brinnid, bumping Sedra’s foot under the table with his own until she blushed.
Once they were all settled around the well-stocked tea table, Brinnid said, “You seem of a purpose today, miss. What’s afoot?”
“What’s afoot?” repeated Ellika, blinking rapidly. “Well--I should ask the same of you! Skulking around the Bloody One’s Temple and no one telling me why.”
“You know why, I’ve dedicated!” said Sedra.
“I don’t see why Brinnid has to go there, too. He’s not dedicated,” Ellika retorted. She switched on a blindingly charming smile and poured the tea. “But that’s neither here nor there. I just haven’t seen you, it seems. We’ve all been so busy, you at Harla’s Hill, me at the Healer’s--at the Lovers’ Temple.”
“Elly, we saw you at breakfast,” Sedra drawled.
“You had your nose in the paper,” sniffed Ellika. “I doubt you even see your food let alone the rest of us.”
“And yet I manage to eat,” said her sister.
“Don’t you mind it, Brinnid--her selfish addiction to newsprint?”
“There is nothing objectionable whatsoever in Her Highness’s conduct that I have noticed,” said Brinnid, bumping Sedra’s foot under the table with his own until she blushed.
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