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August 29, 2024
Caribastos.
Overcome or diverted by Foix’s demon elemental, grown abruptly stronger in power, wit, and will as it feasted on that sharp mind?
a lone horseman.
Ista’s breath caught in a chill, or was that a thrill?
The tabard was splashed with blood.
The hand that tightened on the hilt was filthy and blood-crusted.
the most thoroughly fey smile Ista had ever seen on a man’s face
in a moment of terrified inspiration,
the glaring fire of an anguished soul ripped from its anchorage,
Porifors.”
He smiled and offered her something on a leaf; she squinted, and recognized it after a bewildered moment as a slice of strong tallow soap.
His meticulous courtesy somehow made her more, not less, conscious of the fact that she was alone with a strange man.
“You keep your wits about you, I see.” “I know.” She glanced up at his surprised snort. She said unsteadily, “If you are too kind to me, I shall start to weep, and then we shall be undone.”
The shrieking visions had faded altogether—
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
The entire center of her life was a blackened waste, its long years not to be recovered nor replaced.
Castle Porifors.
a laughing mob. “You have her!” the speaker continued. “I might have known.”
Arhys dy Lutez, March of Porifors,
Ferda dy Gura
“Royina!”
Which of the several versions of the death of his father at Roya Ias’s hands had he heard? Which lie did he believe true?
the Mother’s green of a medical acolyte
men of her guard
a pretty white gelding, clad in her own saddle and trappings.
Arhys
by the tension in his smile, he wanted more than an exchange of pleasantries.
Ferda,