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50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 1 | grating of earth on earth, the ring of metal, the roar of a fire as it swallowed a house – a bellow of consuming rage that echoed across Mentendon. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 2 | As Tunuva Melim watched, five dark shapes emerged from the mountain and disappeared into the night. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 3 | Five dark shapes with ten dark wings, flocked by dark moths that all screamed the same scream, old as the world. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 4 | **** In Drouthwick Castle, Glorian Berethnet woke from a strange dream. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 5 | At her side, Lady Florell Glade cooled her forehead, which had been too cold a moment before. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 6 | ‘Glorian?’ As Florell stroked her hair, Glorian opened her eyes. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 7 | ‘It’s risen,’ she whispered. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 8 | After, she would not remember saying it at all. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 9 | 20 North The sunset had turned the snow to spun honey. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 10 | Alone with his bow in the gathering dark, Wulf stood beneath the pines and took aim at an elk in the clearing. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 11 | King Bardholt meant to have a feast to celebrate their return to Bithandun. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 12 | Fresh venison would please him. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 13 | The elk sniffed the air. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 14 | Wulf slowly released his breath. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 15 | And then he felt something he should never have felt. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 16 | Not in that Northern forest on a frozen lake, the world all cast in grey and white. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 17 | Heat, welling up from under the snow. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 18 | Pleasure and pain, fear, and some deep recognition – all of it boiled together in his heart. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 19 | His knees gave way. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 20 | The arrow went thudding into a pine. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 21 | As the elk fled, Wulf dropped his bow to grip his chest, as if he could stop it from burning. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 22 | He fell like a sack of stones. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 23 | 21 East Her court attire was twice as heavy as it looked, each of the six garments dyed a pale shade of the rainbow. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 24 | All were interleaved with thin layers of white. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 25 | The servants had brushed pearl dust across her cheeks and brow. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 26 | Nothing else. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 27 | The world needed to see her face. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 28 | Since her hair remained too short to shape, they had trimmed and combed it smooth. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 29 | The crown on top put a strain on her neck – a delicate concoction of seashells and pearls. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 30 | Her cart was open to the world, cowries hanging from its roof. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 31 | Lady Taporo had explained how important it was that the people knew she existed before she entered Antuma Palace. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 32 | She would not be able to disappear if everyone knew she was there. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 33 | Lady Taporo had nursed her through her arrival. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 34 | For days, she had been so unwell that she had not even tried to rise, listening to her cousin from within the safe nest of her bedding. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 35 | She still had a dry cough, and her skull felt too small for what was inside it. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 36 | She must hide the earth sickness at court. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 37 | Not for one moment could she appear weak. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 38 | Several guards had accompanied her through the city gate. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 39 | Now they continued along the Avenue of the Dawn, where fifty thousand people had gathered to see the lost Princess of Seiiki. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 40 | Drums beat out her approach. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 41 | Fascinated faces jostled for a look at hers. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 42 | For the first time at those words. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 43 | It burst its thin restraints and went skittering along her arms, raising the fine hairs beneath her sleeves. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 44 | They saw her body as another document to sign. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 45 | ‘You would be wise to set your mind to motherhood now, and to not exert yourself before your marriage,’ Lord Robart said, tidying his papers. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 46 | ‘The entire Virtues Council is here to guard the queendom for you. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 47 | Leave everything to us, Lady Glorian.’ 47 North Throughout the cruel winters of Hróth, the light died at midday. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 48 | With its cloak of sea mist fallen, the high cliff known as Hólrhorn could be seen for leagues off the western coast, though few ships ever sailed nearby. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 49 | Only gulls and rock crabs moved, and even they were quiet. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 50 | Below was a black beach, miles long. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 51 | The waves pared thick snow from its sand and withdrew with a roar, leaving a lace of foam. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 52 | The coast they washed became a mirror in their wake, reflecting the grim cliffs, the birds, and a bank of grey cloud, all tarnished with copper. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 53 | Rock stacks towered from the spindrift. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 54 | Most called them the Six Virtues of the Sea, but those who still cleaved to the past, who lullabied the frozen lakes, knew them by a far older name. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 55 | Thousands of years they had stood guard. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 56 | Now they watched the dead appear. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 57 | For days, only the rocks witnessed the corpses washing in, charred and broken, released from the sea. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 58 | Only they saw the entangled pair – one in the holdfast of the other – come ashore to rest at last. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 59 | The red sun took its leave. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 60 | When darkness fell, it fell entire. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 61 | So it was until the sky lights woke. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 62 | Colours sketched the sky, flowed tall and bright, and billowed like sails through clear water, ghosting in shades of blue and green. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 63 | They picked out the remains on the long beach and reflected in the eyes of a young woman with brown hair. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 64 | Like the other corpses, she was burnt, the skin and flesh torched from her arms – though her face remained whole, white as ice. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 65 | Whether it was the water or the fire that had killed her, no one could have told. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 66 | Beside her lay the last survivor. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 67 | A strong wave rolled in and broke across his back. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 68 | He coughed seawater, his nose stinging. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 69 | When he peeled his eyes open and saw the lights, he knew this was not Halgalant. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 70 | His fingers were swollen and blistered. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 71 | The sea had almost wrung him of all strength, but he found the will for one last crawl, to gather the dead woman close and drag her up the beach. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 72 | Each inch opened his salt sores. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 73 | Each one unlocked the agony the bitter cold had kept at bay, drawing raw, tearless groans. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 74 | When he had gone as far as he could, he collapsed beside her, the woman who had never feared him. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 75 | With cracked lips, he kissed her brow. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 76 | He had fought hard to get her home, and it was done. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 77 | Her bones were safe. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 78 | He had only one regret – that have been weary, but I know I never fell asleep.’ ‘Denag could have. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 79 | Perhaps this happened after she took over,’ Tunuva said gently. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 80 | ‘Hidat did not give us a precise time, and the line between dusk and night is not clean.’ ‘I feel mad.’ Esbar kneaded her forehead. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 81 | ‘But it’s done.’ ‘How long can we keep it from Siyu?’ Esbar looked as if all the light had gone out of her. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 82 | ‘He escaped into the forest,’ she said at last, ‘and we have no idea what became of him. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 83 | We’ll tell her after Saghul passes.’ Such a disappearance was believable. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 84 | After all, it had happened before. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 85 | ‘She trusts us. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 86 | She loves us,’ Tunuva said in a whisper. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 87 | ‘How can we deceive her?’ ‘To protect her. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 88 | The truth stays between the two of us, Hidat, and Imsurin.’ Tunuva breathed in, arms drawn over her heart, fingers pressed into her shoulders. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 89 | She imagined the terrible weight of that secret; the way its sharp edges would chisel at her. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 90 | She imagined having to lie to Siyu every day for the rest of her life. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 91 | And then she imagined losing her for good, and one moment with that thought was too long. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 92 | ‘I will speak to Denag,’ she finally said. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 93 | ‘You should rest, Esbar.’ Esbar let out a low, dark laugh, a sound Tunuva had never heard her make. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 94 | ‘I will try.’ Tunuva padded into the Bridal Chamber, where she found Saghul in a light drowse, eyes restless beneath their lids. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 95 | Finding Denag asleep in a chair, Tunuva woke her with a touch and sent her to her own bed. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 96 | They could speak in the morning. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 97 | She sat beside Saghul, whose ichneumon was still awake at the foot of her bed. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 98 | His fur had long since turned grey, but he would stay with his little sister until the end. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 99 | ‘Saghul,’ Tunuva said softly. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 100 | ‘It’s Tunuva. |
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