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She ignored Jael completely as she sat down to take off her wet boots, her eyes racing around the room, deciding where to begin.
How could it possibly be that messy when only two people live there and one is hardly ever home? The other is a live in maid…
Jael’s heart was racing now. Eirik spoke as though she wasn’t there.
Right. why is he talking like she did something?
‘So you are talking to him now? Not lying with him, not sleeping in the same bed, but talking to him?’
So he could tell all that but not that Evaine was basically living in Eadmund’s cottage? Before she got pregnant?
That Eadmund hasn’t even set foot in this house since your wedding. That he slept through that night on the floor!’ Eirik stared at her intently, challenging her to deny Tiras’ accusations. Jael thought that over. How would Tiras know all of that?
Biddy. Thinking about it, Tiras found out Evaine was pregnant after Biddy did…
Did he sit outside the house all night with his ear to the wall, listening to Eadmund snore?
That doesn’t explain the rest.
warned him. He knew it. He only had that one chance, and now it’s gone.’ ‘Why? What have you done?’ ‘I’ve had Morac take the girl away,’ Eirik said coldly. ‘And I’ve sent for Ivaar.’
So what was the point of this conversation when you already took Tiras’ word as truth and acted?
I’ve had the pain of knowing that Isaura was only a ship’s ride away, married to your bastard brother.
But… he wasn’t a bastard…
but when he’d overheard Eadmund and Evaine arguing in the alley, it had all come together perfectly.
Oh ok.
Eirik simmered angrily as he drained his cup of mead, the taste of it oddly bitter on his tongue.
Hope he wasn’t just poisoned…
Isaura shivered, knowing that the opportunity for his long-awaited revenge was about to be delivered to him by the very man he had always dreamed of destroying.
Eadmund had to go deliver the note? Wow.
She stared at her hands, her eyes hurting, her breasts aching, her heart breaking.
How far along is she?
She was being dramatic, Morac thought. But Eirik had banished three members of his family now.
He caused one of those himself though!
She winked at Biddy, whose face twisted into a scowl. ‘Yes, you should come again, Eydis. It will make a nice change to be around a real lady.’
😂😂😂
ship. He felt reluctant to leave his daughter. Angry that Eirik was forcing him to.
How he gone blame Eirik when he’s the one that negotiated the marriage proposal to Jael, knowing his daughter was in love with the man? He should have sent her away himself!
And gathering in her flapping cloak, she turned to climb the hill back to her aunt’s stinking little cottage.
Well, didn’t she say her aunt would know how to help her. Stop whining. 🤷🏽♀️
And I’m sure there are more than a few elders who would like to know the whereabouts of that... woman.’
Yet his mother told tales that told of her location?
She felt foolish. Foolish, and so very alone.
She should, because it was dumb of her to not know how her father operates and that she would be used for his benefit.
He had been to Tuura only once, and it was not a place he had planned to revisit.
Wasn’t he born there? This is so confusing.
But you’re wasting your time here, for your interest in her will do nothing to hurt me. You’re welcome to this one!’
Wow. In the hall…in front of everyone!?
Eadmund glared at Jael,
Why glare at her? Why attempt to humiliate her when all of this is your fault?
Eadmund’s face froze in shock.
Why are you shocked now? You wasn’t shocked when you threw jabs at her!
He wasn’t looking forward to you coming back.’
Idiot
‘Alright, it’s our plan. For now. It’s a bad plan, and I want you to remember I said that when it all comes shitting down on our heads.
And you agree to the plan you think is stupid and dangerous solely because you get to speak with your ex… who’s married with kids? Wow.
‘What I have helped you do in the past?’
Kill the first wife… I’m sure that’s what she speaks of.
She wasn’t sure who she could trust besides Aleksander,
And why is she even sure she can trust him? He does seem to want to protect Jael and care for her, but it’s borderline obsessive since he did dangerous shit like seeking out the Widow and drinking weird tinctures. Why didn’t he just find another normal dreamer?
She glanced at their faces, hoping they would be open to helping her, but doubting there was much they would know. Kormac was a blacksmith and Branwyn had not inherited her mother’s gifts, and neither of them were particularly close to any dreamer or elder that she knew of.
So… why even tell them? They would likely not be as invested in this in the first place, not being connected to the magic! Hell, the daughter may even be resentful of it.
‘That is very troubling, Mother, but I’m not sure what you’ll be able to find out here,’ Branwyn frowned. ‘There are people who know more than most about Tuura’s history, but those people are in the temple, hidden away with all the secrets they keep. I can’t imagine they’ll be eager to reveal anything to you.’ She shook her head, glancing at Kormac.
So… what was all the talk about before she revealed everything? Kormac was acting like they knew shit.
All those prophecies... hidden from the ones they concern the most. They never share them with us, do they? Not in all these years.
Sounds like resentment to me.
It’s Eadmund who used her. He did this to her!’ Eirik laughed. ‘Just a girl? Ha! I didn’t take you for such a fool, my friend. You really think this had anything to do with Eadmund?’
Wow. Morac is an idiot.
The way she followed him around? Everyone could see it. Everyone but you!’
Exactly
furious; he could feel his tongue loosening and his chest throbbing.
Heart attack? Is that how he dies?
‘Eirik told me how much you like to ride, you and Thorgils here.’
Why would he tell him that?
but her eyes were fixed on Tarak. The look of horror on his hideous face was a start.
Why did he look horrified? Had he no knowledge of why Fyn was banished? Did he not know he had been seen? That’s really unfair then.
‘Oh? Really? That’s not what I heard,’ Jael said, cocking her head to one side. ‘I’d heard it was tall, red-haired. Young, with freckles...’
He wasn’t tall when Tarak started it though.
It was only a small movement, but it was obvious to everyone that Jael had her finger on something that Tarak didn’t want her to have her finger on.
So how come Thorsgil knows why Fyn was banished but Tarak and no one else seem to? It’s not a huge island.
They always need someone to do something for them, to make something, go somewhere, even deliver a message. They don’t do much for themselves.’
And none of this is getting to the point of what he knows about the sword.
‘They sit in that temple, with all those prophecies. No one sees them, and no one knows what they mean for any of our futures. What the point of it all is, I don’t know.’
Your husband JUST said that now she’s acting like she just thought of it to Alekander… she’s lame.
‘That, with Tarak. Whatever that was.’ Thorgils nodded towards the stable door,
So, if he didn’t already know why did he respond like he did?
‘She’s yours now. Maybe yours for many years,’ Edela smiled. ‘She needs a name.’
He just said he would name her! Shut up.
But we have no chance of getting in there. None that I can see, at least.’
You’re a dreamer. Didn’t they say they allow dreamers inside?
‘But Edela, you’re a dreamer! Dreamers are allowed into the temple, aren’t they? So why wouldn’t you be let in?’
Wow.
Edela frowned, ready to argue before realising that he was right.
Wow.
‘Isn’t that why Eirik called you back?’
I hope she doesn’t blab about Eidys being a dreamer. I feel like he doesn’t know.
‘You can’t expect Eadmund to want to talk to Ivaar,’ Eydis whispered crossly. ‘Not after what he did to Melaena.’
But I don’t think he did it. He might be a bad guy, but I don’t think it was him on that one. Evaine all day.
‘Perhaps you should talk to Eydis? She might have a dream for you.’
Blabber. She doesn’t even know whose side she’s on!
‘You didn’t know?’ Jael was surprised.
Why would she be surprised? Doesn’t she know it’s kept secret?
So, if she was hoping to construct a friendship with Ivaar, Jael realised that she could hardly start one with Isaura, which suited her just fine.
Wow. So she’s not even going to tell her she’s pretending so as to avoid unnecessary conflict and dislike in advance?
This will end in death, and there is nothing you can do about that, I promise,’ the voice cackled. ‘Everyone you love will die, and there is nothing you can do to stop it!’
The widow?
‘I wouldn’t worry, though. I hear the weather in Hest is so warm in winter that you don’t even need a cloak!’
How do they plan to conquer Hest but also plan to marry her to one of the sons?
‘Well, after what you did...’ Jael couldn’t help herself.
Couldn’t help herself in being judgmental without knowing all the facts? Having one sided information? Especially after hearing about Evaine from her own brother and her obsession with Eadmund since childhood? Right. Ok.
