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50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 201 | ‘How long will this voyage take?’ ‘As long as it takes.’ Canthe looked at her. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 202 | ‘Tuva, we can still turn back.’ Tunuva gazed at the ceiling. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 203 | ‘No,’ she said softly. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 204 | ‘I have carried this weight in my heart for too long. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 205 | In the Priory, we learn to bear pain, as the Mother did . |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 208 | but mine is like a wound that never healed, never became a scar. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 209 | I will exalt her by seeking the truth. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 210 | Truth is what sustains the Priory.’ ‘She would be proud.’ With a nod, Tunuva closed her eyes. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 211 | As the ship forged into the Halassa Sea, she tried to still the restlessness inside and sleep. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 212 | **** Summer had always had a smell: corn ripening in the fields, wildflowers courting honeybees. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 213 | This summer stank of wool sticking to sweat, and turning earth, and fear. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 214 | Where the farmworkers of Arondine might once have been out shearing and reaping, they dug trenches. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 215 | Where blacksmiths had made nails and horseshoes, they forged swords. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 216 | At the coming of wyrms, bells would ring across the city, warning people to make for the old tunnel and flee with all haste to the caves. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 217 | To avoid confusion, there would be no bells for the Feast of Early Summer. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 218 | So far, there had been no sound from the wyrms, either. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 219 | Wulf visited as often as he could, and yet her blood kept coming. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 220 | As Glorian watched him train with Thrit, her thoughts drifted elsewhere. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 221 | It had been weeks, but she still thought of the light she had found in her dream, and the voice that had called for it. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 222 | ‘Glorian,’ Florell said, interrupting her thoughts. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 223 | ‘Lady Marian is finally here.’ At once, Glorian looked to the east, where riders flew the banners of the House of Berethnet. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 224 | ‘I will meet her in the throne room,’ she said, walking after Florell. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 225 | ‘See her in.’ The Regency Council had voted, by a narrow majority, to make her grandmother Lady Protector of Inys. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 226 | Though she held the position in law, it had taken a season for Marian to even set out – first because of the heavy spring rains, which had burst the rivers of the Fens, then no sooner had the waters receded than Marian had been stricken with marsh fever. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 227 | Bourn arrived before anyone else, looking exhausted. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 228 | ‘Mastress,’ Glorian said, ‘thank you. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 229 | Thank you for saving her.’ ‘Lady Marian fought hard, Your Grace. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 230 | I only had a modest supply of a bark that eases fever.’ At last, Marian Berethnet, third of that name, appeared with her small and wayworn household, Yeltalay. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 231 | Houses rotted on tall stilts, while towers had crumbled into heaps of stone, thick with yellow moss. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 232 | A rickety boardwalk greeted them, winding through the mist, into the ruins of a settlement. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 233 | King Padar tested it underfoot before he put his weight on it. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 234 | Dumai followed him. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 235 | ‘This was an outpost,’ he said. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 236 | ‘People lived here for decades, to broaden their knowledge of the world – alchemists, metalsmiths, skywatchers.’ He frowned at a large bronze urn, dulled by mud. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 237 | ‘That is a Lacustrine instrument, for measuring the tremors in the ground. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 238 | They must have left in a hurry, to have abandoned an object of such value.’ Dumai eyed it. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 239 | ‘What drew them to this place?’ ‘They saw the earth was open here and came to hear its deep secrets.’ ‘And smell them.’ Kanifa watched the steam rise. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 240 | ‘I’m not sure I could stand these fumes.’ ‘Listening to the earth sounds like Northern oddness,’ Nikeya said hoarsely. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 241 | ‘I hear they have conversations with ice.’ ‘They did once,’ King Padar agreed. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 242 | ‘Now they praise a warrior.’ ‘You seem half a warrior yourself, good king, traipsing through dangerous valleys with strangers.’ ‘I had another life before I wore a crown.’ He glanced back at Dumai. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 243 | ‘Much like you, Princess.’ They kept going, walking in the dragons’ shadows. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 244 | Behind the base of a fallen tower, Dumai spotted a cave. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 245 | Clearing the trailing moss from its mouth, she saw a faded mural of a peak brimming with fire, and people reaching for the stars. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 246 | A yelp pulled her attention away. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 247 | Nikeya had put her boot straight through the ground. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 248 | She lurched away from the scalding pool beneath, losing her footing. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 249 | ‘Nikeya,’ Dumai said, starting towards her. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 250 | ‘I’m fine.’ Nikeya caught her breath. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 251 | ‘Stay there.’ Kanifa stretched out a hand for hers. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 252 | Nikeya grasped it and let him drag her away from the pool. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 253 | ‘Come to the boardwalk,’ King Padar said, beckoning. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 254 | ‘The Broken Valley is fragile. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 255 | If you had slipped into that pool, there would have been nothing left to send back to Seiiki.’ Dumai gave Nikeya her flask before she followed him. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 256 | For once, the Lady of Faces was silent. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 257 | Her hands shook as she drank. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 258 | The sun had gone down, making the fog much harder to cross. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 259 | Furtia raised her head, and her crest shone like a clear full moon; the Sepuli dragons did the same. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 260 | King Padar stopped where the boardwalk did. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 261 | When Dumai saw the reason it had buckled, she took a careful step forward, so she could see over the edge, to where the earth had yawned wide. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 262 | Furtia bared her teeth, eyes wildening. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 263 | Too many. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 264 | Dumai stared into the rift. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 265 | Inside, pitted boulders were clustered together, leaking molten lava through their cracks, rattling. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 266 | Not one small clutch this time, but hundreds. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 267 | King Padar knelt beside her, the glow catching in his eyes. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 268 | What are they? |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 269 | Twistings of fire and earth. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 270 | Furtia hissed. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 271 | They cannot be calmed now. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 272 | The sky will burn . |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 275 | Something broke through the nearest rock, cracking its dark crust. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 276 | ‘Princess Dumai,’ King Padar said, his softly. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 277 | ‘I cling to faith as flame clings to a wick already curled and black.’ ‘The Mother will see us through this, Esbar.’ ‘The Priory, perhaps. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 278 | What of you and I?’ Tunuva had never thought she would feel truly cold again, until Esbar uqNāra asked her that question. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 279 | ‘That decision must be yours.’ Her throat constricted as she spoke. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 280 | ‘Nothing has changed for me.’ Esbar sank deeper into the chair. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 281 | ‘All these years I have watched you grieve,’ she said, ‘and when you had hope, I failed to fan it. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 282 | I was only afraid it was false hope, Tuva.’ ‘You thought you were doing the right thing. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 283 | Desperation made me foolish.’ ‘We can all be foolish when it comes to love.’ Esbar breathed out. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 284 | ‘Armul – Wulfert – is welcome here. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 285 | I must confess, I am curious to see him. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 286 | And glad to have a little more of you.’ All at once, her eyes were brimming. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 287 | Esbar had not wept in so long. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 288 | Tunuva reached across the table and took her by the hand, interlocking their fingers. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 289 | ‘Is it enough?’ Esbar asked her in a strained voice. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 290 | ‘Is our life enough for you now, Tuva?’ ‘It was always enough. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 291 | I just wanted the truth.’ Esbar tightened her grasp. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 292 | ‘I would not live another day without you by my side,’ she said in a whisper. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 293 | ‘Be with me. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 294 | Forgive me, and I will give you the same grace. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 295 | Let us do what we were born to do.’ Tunuva leaned across to her, setting their brows together. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 296 | There they sat, for a long time: breathing, staying. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 297 | 82 East The sun rose cold and grim above Mount Ipyeda. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 298 | Each day, more smoke was darkening the sky. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 299 | ‘So you have all but declared war on the Kuposa,’ the Grand Empress said. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 300 | ‘Well, granddaughter, I suppose that was one way to handle them. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 301 | I expect the River Lord – the regent – will retaliate.’ She sat with Dumai and Unora in her quarters, just as they had all sat on the night Dumai learned who she was. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 302 | Two years later, they were almost back to where they had begun. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 303 | ‘He has what he wants. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 304 | A meek child on the throne, and the regency. |
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