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A strange feeling came over her. A feeling that this place she’d never visited before was somehow . . . familiar.
This is how secrets are learned.
She entered the scant orchard and saw blossoms beginning to bud on the stems. Fruit trees of some kind.
Critchlow,
lapidaries
lapidary /ˈlapəˌderē/ I. adjective 1. (of language) engraved on or suitable for engraving on stone and therefore elegant and concise • a lapidary statement. 2. of or relating to stone and gems and the work involved in engraving, cutting, or polishing. II. noun a person who cuts, polishes, or engraves gems. – origin Middle English (as a noun): from Latin lapidarius (in late Latin ‘stonecutter’), from lapis, lapid- ‘stone.’ The adjective dates from the early 18th cent.
“This is your room,”
a small, windowless chamber. A tiny pallet lay on the floor. Fear gripped her stomach. There were no sources of light in the room.
If not for the lack of light, the space would have suited her fine.
standing at the window, his back to them.
middle-aged
thick in the s...
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heavy at the...
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simple...
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weather-beate...
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unruly da...
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blue stains of the woad tattoos on his cheeks and neck.
His eyes were livid, his expression full of contempt.
Her stomach shriveled at the look of intelligence and m...
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She was instantly afra...
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“How kind to treat your prisoner so, Captain. But as I’ve said before to that fool Critchlow, I need no servant, want no servant, and distrust your servant.”
She sensed the presence of a Leering in the room before she saw it.
Something about it made her insides coil.
“Thank you,” she whispered to him, and then he left her and shut her inside the room.
“What’s your name?”
pethets.
the Medium
It is not easy to tame one’s mind.
A child thinks it is the center of all. But as they age, they realize others exist, and their needs and whims do not rule the house, let alone the village, let alone the world. The older they get, the more they see this truth borne out in the suffering inherent in this Second Life. Time becomes something they fear, and that fear forges chains in their mind that they cannot break. If only they’d understand that the power that shaped the stars, the brightness of the moon, and the very earth upon which we tread is waiting to reveal to them the deepest secrets of their most enduring convictions,
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A pauper could inherit a palace if only they thought and desired it enough.
Who was this man?
He was very disagreeable,
but he did not seem evil.
But he’s nephew to the king.
His family might be famous,
That’s why he doesn’t go by his last name, you know
“I cannot sleep,”
“‘He that keepeth watch over Idumea never slumbers or sleeps.’
Do you know that saying from the tomes?”
There will come a day when they stop letting wretcheds read.
“It’s not the dark you should fear, Eilean,”
“It’s more pitiable being afraid of the light.”
she saw with outrage that her kirtle, the one she’d washed and carefully hung to dry, lay in the mud.
she saw the muddy footprints covering the skirt.
Giggling filtered through the trees, and she noticed the three wretcheds from Holyrood had hidden nearby to watch her. Under her scrutiny, they grabb...
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such behavior was cruel.
“Talk to Captain Hoel.”
All you need to do is to ensure they see you talking to him.
And they will know that you are already superior to them.
