Daughter of Redwinter (The Redwinter Chronicles #1)

by Ed McDonald

his hair was yellow as the corn.

Into the woods ref

But what did I know back then, thirteen years old and pining for a man twice my age? He didn’t touch me until this last year, and I was the one who had opened that door. The frustrations of my young teenage years had only blossomed into admiration that he had waited for me to grow up. He had made me promises, and he had kept them. I loved him all the more for that.

Oh! That's not...!

Sister Marthella had explained it to me the first time Braithe hit me.

The first time??? Girl run

Stay here with the children. You know your place.’

God I hate him

I’d faced down Ciuthach, but it was Hazia’s knife that lingered in my skin.

‘The servants don’t live here?’ ‘Oh yes. I forgot them,’ Ovitus said.

I really can't stand him

‘So if not him—it’s you?’ ‘Much to Uncle Ulovar’s great frustration,’ Ovitus said.

And mine too bitch

‘Grandmaster,’ I said, clenching my fists. ‘Innocent people died because of that thing. To stop it, Lord Ulovar sacrificed everybody I cared about, and I only survived on the spin of a coin. His eyes are full of blood, and your Draoihn nearly turned their swords on one another. If this was a race, we only crossed the finish post by tripping over our feet and smashing our faces into it.’

Ivy was not in the stables when I looked.

:(((

Easy to be generous when you have everything.

Perhaps that was why I’d suddenly felt so uncomfortable when she drew close. Maybe? Probably. Best to say that was it and not think about it again, ever.

Girl is experiencing bi panic

Everything had changed so fast. And, fate decided, it would all change again soon enough.

Thanks god i was so bored rn

Just a taste of power, for a man who in truth deserved none.

Politicians be like

‘Why did you show me this?’ I asked. Hess smiled, or would have had the curl of his mangled lip allowed it. ‘Times are hard, and harder for those like us still. Good to have friends, ain’t it? There’ll come a day when you need to escape all this. Might need friends to see you away, to find your own life. One that isn’t gripped in Redwinter’s iron fist. Anyway. Get off with you. Day’s a-wasting.’

The Queen of Feathers had done this to me. She had told those people who I was, maybe even where to find me. She had protected me once, but this didn’t feel like help.

Girl -_-

The scar on my mind had been at its strongest, casting the world into deepest shadow. I felt clearer now. I knew I wasn’t right, not completely, but I treasured that single tear.

I was grateful for the scar Ulovar had laid across my mind.

I hope it will be gone soon

‘What did Sanvaunt have to do for his?’ I asked. ‘I don’t know. He passed it easily enough, though. He’s annoying like that.’ Ovitus shrugged. ‘Annoying how?’ ‘He’s good at things.’

Well, maybe you're just useless

‘You don’t get on a moon horse. It’ll carry you off to the hidden folk’s realm, and then you’ll be a moon horse too.’ It was meant to be scary, but I thought that actually sounded quite nice.

No Draoihn can possess both the Fifth and Sixth Gates.

‘Redwinter has no choice but to remove those that see the dead, because we cannot risk infiltration by the Sarathi.’ She almost sounded proud of it, maybe just proud to be counted as Draoihn.

I'm begging you not to date her

Man is ever bound by obligations, but to lose them gives no freedom but abandonment.” That’s Eudiricles.

It was easy to forget, in Redwinter’s world of swords and threat, that we were only seventeen,

Ummmmm what????

‘You don’t have to agree with the law,’ I said. ‘It’s made by men, not the Light Above.’