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The birth date of the stables is anyone’s guess, but they’re a tumbledown affair, their state perhaps a nod to lately decaying fortunes.
No one says “Before the O’Malleys” for good reason; their history is murky, and that’s not a little to do with their very own efforts.
dark-haired and dark-eyed, yet with skin so terribly pale that on occasion it was muttered that the O’Malleys didn’t go about by day, but that wasn’t true.
There was always silver, too, in their coffers, the purest and brightest though they’d tell no one from whence it came.
Those who took O’Malley charity or made good-faith bargains with them often found that the cost was much higher than could have been imagined.
Some said the O’Malleys had too much saltwater in their veins to be good and god-fearing, or good anything else for that matter. But nothing could be proven, not ever.
lavender which calms the dead, the joins sealed with eldritch adhesive over which spells have been sung)
she was a good wife in spite of him.
a sure sign of how insignificant we’ve become, that predators don’t give us even a glance.
no pale wailing woman at the window, nor did a storm blow up when he died – that only happens when the women go; no one knows why, or if they do no one’s saying.
Three children there were in the house: the firstborn, a girl to inherit; the middle a boy for the Church; and the last another girl, and a grief it would be to her mother if she fulfilled her purpose.
That voice in my head, the one from the assassins market, pipes up again: Marry him now, murder him in a month, a year, inherit everything. But I think that’s my grandmother’s voice, or at least the part of my blood I got from her. They
Dark-haired, dark-eyed, moon-skinned, teeth sharp in their laughing mouths, gazes hard; these creatures so seldom seen, so close. Then they duck-dive and are gone.
‘Very few people are entirely good or bad, missy, but some ignore the calling of one or the other better than the rest of us.’
Love is a barbed hook and family the line to which it is tied. It digs deep and sometimes trying to remove it entirely does more damage than simply leaving the obstruction beneath the skin for a scar to grow over.
you claim what you can endure from your once-life and burn the rest.
