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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.
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As Tunuva Melim watched, five dark shapes emerged from the mountain and disappeared into the night.
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Five dark shapes with ten dark wings, flocked by dark moths that all screamed the same scream, old as the world.
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**** In Drouthwick Castle, Glorian Berethnet woke from a strange dream.
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At her side, Lady Florell Glade cooled her forehead, which had been too cold a moment before.
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‘Glorian?’ As Florell stroked her hair, Glorian opened her eyes.
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‘It’s risen,’ she whispered.
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After, she would not remember saying it at all.
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20 North The sunset had turned the snow to spun honey.
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Alone with his bow in the gathering dark, Wulf stood beneath the pines and took aim at an elk in the clearing.
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King Bardholt meant to have a feast to celebrate their return to Bithandun.
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Fresh venison would please him.
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The elk sniffed the air.
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Wulf slowly released his breath.
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And then he felt something he should never have felt.
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Not in that Northern forest on a frozen lake, the world all cast in grey and white.
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Heat, welling up from under the snow.
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Pleasure and pain, fear, and some deep recognition – all of it boiled together in his heart.
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His knees gave way.
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The arrow went thudding into a pine.
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As the elk fled, Wulf dropped his bow to grip his chest, as if he could stop it from burning.
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He fell like a sack of stones.
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21 East Her court attire was twice as heavy as it looked, each of the six garments dyed a pale shade of the rainbow.
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All were interleaved with thin layers of white.
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The servants had brushed pearl dust across her cheeks and brow.
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Nothing else.
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The world needed to see her face.
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Since her hair remained too short to shape, they had trimmed and combed it smooth.
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The crown on top put a strain on her neck – a delicate concoction of seashells and pearls.
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Her cart was open to the world, cowries hanging from its roof.
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Lady Taporo had explained how important it was that the people knew she existed before she entered Antuma Palace.
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She would not be able to disappear if everyone knew she was there.
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Lady Taporo had nursed her through her arrival.
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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.
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She still had a dry cough, and her skull felt too small for what was inside it.
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She must hide the earth sickness at court.
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Not for one moment could she appear weak.
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Several guards had accompanied her through the city gate.
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Now they continued along the Avenue of the Dawn, where fifty thousand people had gathered to see the lost Princess of Seiiki.
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Drums beat out her approach.
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Fascinated faces jostled for a look at hers.
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For the first time at those words.
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It burst its thin restraints and went skittering along her arms, raising the fine hairs beneath her sleeves.
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They saw her body as another document to sign.
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‘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.
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‘The entire Virtues Council is here to guard the queendom for you.
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Leave everything to us, Lady Glorian.’ 47 North Throughout the cruel winters of Hróth, the light died at midday.
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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.
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Only gulls and rock crabs moved, and even they were quiet.
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Below was a black beach, miles long.
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The waves pared thick snow from its sand and withdrew with a roar, leaving a lace of foam.
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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.
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Rock stacks towered from the spindrift.
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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.
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Thousands of years they had stood guard.
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Now they watched the dead appear.
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For days, only the rocks witnessed the corpses washing in, charred and broken, released from the sea.
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Only they saw the entangled pair – one in the holdfast of the other – come ashore to rest at last.
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The red sun took its leave.
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When darkness fell, it fell entire.
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So it was until the sky lights woke.
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Colours sketched the sky, flowed tall and bright, and billowed like sails through clear water, ghosting in shades of blue and green.
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They picked out the remains on the long beach and reflected in the eyes of a young woman with brown hair.
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Like the other corpses, she was burnt, the skin and flesh torched from her arms – though her face remained whole, white as ice.
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Whether it was the water or the fire that had killed her, no one could have told.
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Beside her lay the last survivor.
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A strong wave rolled in and broke across his back.
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He coughed seawater, his nose stinging.
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When he peeled his eyes open and saw the lights, he knew this was not Halgalant.
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His fingers were swollen and blistered.
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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.
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Each inch opened his salt sores.
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Each one unlocked the agony the bitter cold had kept at bay, drawing raw, tearless groans.
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When he had gone as far as he could, he collapsed beside her, the woman who had never feared him.
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With cracked lips, he kissed her brow.
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He had fought hard to get her home, and it was done.
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Her bones were safe.
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He had only one regret – that have been weary, but I know I never fell asleep.’ ‘Denag could have.
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Perhaps this happened after she took over,’ Tunuva said gently.
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‘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.
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‘But it’s done.’ ‘How long can we keep it from Siyu?’ Esbar looked as if all the light had gone out of her.
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‘He escaped into the forest,’ she said at last, ‘and we have no idea what became of him.
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We’ll tell her after Saghul passes.’ Such a disappearance was believable.
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After all, it had happened before.
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‘She trusts us.
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She loves us,’ Tunuva said in a whisper.
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‘How can we deceive her?’ ‘To protect her.
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The truth stays between the two of us, Hidat, and Imsurin.’ Tunuva breathed in, arms drawn over her heart, fingers pressed into her shoulders.
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She imagined the terrible weight of that secret; the way its sharp edges would chisel at her.
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She imagined having to lie to Siyu every day for the rest of her life.
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And then she imagined losing her for good, and one moment with that thought was too long.
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‘I will speak to Denag,’ she finally said.
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‘You should rest, Esbar.’ Esbar let out a low, dark laugh, a sound Tunuva had never heard her make.
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‘I will try.’ Tunuva padded into the Bridal Chamber, where she found Saghul in a light drowse, eyes restless beneath their lids.
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Finding Denag asleep in a chair, Tunuva woke her with a touch and sent her to her own bed.
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They could speak in the morning.
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She sat beside Saghul, whose ichneumon was still awake at the foot of her bed.
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His fur had long since turned grey, but he would stay with his little sister until the end.
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‘Saghul,’ Tunuva said softly.
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‘It’s Tunuva.
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