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50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 305 | There is no reason for him to attack me,’ Dumai said. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 306 | ‘The River Lord may be concerned with his own power, but even he must see now that the wyrms and the sickness are more important. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 307 | I have seen the destruction they have already wreaked in the rest of the East. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 308 | Even in the North.’ ‘Perhaps. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 309 | Or perhaps he will now see you as the only real threat to his dominion. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 310 | After all, a Noziken has never defied him so openly, nor established a rival court.’ The Grand Empress gazed towards the window. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 311 | ‘Unora, what do you say to all this?’ ‘I am no child of the rainbow, Manai.’ ‘You bore one, and she will need you. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 312 | Dumai has no knowledge of the provinces. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 313 | You do,’ the Grand Empress said. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 314 | ‘You know how to survive in times of scarcity. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 315 | That will be useful.’ Dumai things.’ Glorian drew herself up. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 316 | ‘Mother retires after eventide. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 317 | I will need to be at the spyhole by then.’ She grimaced. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 318 | ‘Let’s not tell Jules. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 319 | She’ll only worry.’ They looked at one another. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 320 | ‘Or Adela,’ they agreed in unison. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 321 | **** After the evening meal, she and Helisent changed and walked to the Royal Sanctuary. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 322 | Sir Bramel and Dame Erda closed the doors behind them, leaving Glorian to her supposed reflection. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 323 | ‘Take this.’ Helisent took a fire pouch from under her cloak. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 324 | ‘Do you know how to use it?’ ‘Of course.’ When Helisent canted an eyebrow, Glorian sighed. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 325 | ‘I am aware I lack certain practical skills as a royal, but do you truly think a princess of the North can’t light a fire?’ ‘I sometimes forget you’ve a claim to two thrones.’ Helisent presented her with a set of iron pincers. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 326 | ‘For the nails.’ They had worn cloaks of different colours, which they now traded. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 327 | Helisent drew up her hood and knelt in prayer, while Glorian slipped through the sanctarians’ door. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 328 | Helisent had discovered the secret when she was fifteen. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 329 | Since she had a sharp eye for detail, her father had asked her to find some coroners’ rolls in the castle archives. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 330 | During the search, she had come across an old plan of Drouthwick and noticed two windows she had never seen from the outside, adjacent to the room that was now the royal bedchamber. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 331 | Combing the castle, she had found a dusty nook, bricked up at one end. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 332 | The stonemasons must have grown lazy and not filled it in all the way. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 333 | Content that no one was using it to spy on Queen Sabran – there was no sign of disturbance, save mouse droppings – Helisent had burned the plan and told Glorian. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 334 | Now it was theirs. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 335 | The entrance lay in a passage behind a rusty iron grate. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 336 | Glorian knelt beside it and used the pincers to pluck out its nails, revealing an opening. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 337 | She slid through the gap. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 338 | In the dark, she unpacked the firesteel and flint. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 339 | When she had a candle lit, she pulled the grate back into place, a thread of fearful excitement winding through her. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 340 | In sixteen years, she had never eluded her guards. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 341 | The steps were cramped. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 342 | Helisent thought the Malkin Queen must have used them to bring lovers to her bed, but the tyrant had paraded her adultery. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 343 | More likely all of this was just unwanted space, sealed up to strengthen the castle. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 344 | Glorian had never dared to visit it before. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 345 | Her slippers made little sound. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 346 | She curled her hand around her candle, her shadow wavering. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 347 | When she heard voices, she blew it out and crawled until she saw a faint light. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 348 | A fracture in the brickwork let her see straight into the Great Chamber. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 349 | Her mother was sitting on her bed in a flowing ivory shift. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 350 | ‘—never dare resist the Vatten. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 351 | They have milk in their blood and feathers in the lining of their bellies.’ ‘Now Heryon is appeased, I agree,’ her mother said. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 352 | ‘But we have other things to fear.’ She watched her consort Mulsub in starlight. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 353 | I never understood what that meant before now. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 354 | What if she used the same magic as Canthe?’ Esbar looked at it, her expression resolving. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 355 | ‘Hold the gate,’ she ordered their sisters. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 356 | ‘I need higher ground.’ Tunuva ran towards the cliffs with her. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 357 | Royal tombs were carved into their western face. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 358 | In their wake, the gates cracked open to let out a flood of Ersyri soldiers, roaring as they made a last foray. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 359 | Those operating the catapults went up and down the cliffs on a wooden platform, pulled by chains. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 360 | Esbar and Tunuva climbed on to it. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 361 | Feeling their weight, someone above began to hoist them up, and as the platform swayed above the tombs, they saw the whole city, on fire from one end to the other. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 362 | Below, their sisters grew smaller, beating away the horde at the gates. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 363 | ‘They’re coming from the north,’ Esbar said, watching. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 364 | Tunuva nodded. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 365 | She looked down at her cloak, once white, and found it soaked in blood. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 366 | At the top, they stepped off the platform to find the city guard cranking down the arm of the largest catapult, Izi observing them. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 367 | From here, starlight could be glimpsed through the smoke. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 368 | ‘Izi, get to the tombs to recover,’ Esbar told her. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 369 | ‘You’ve fought enough.’ ‘I’m fine, Prioress—’ ‘That was an order.’ With a nod of defeat, Izi went to the platform, holding her side. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 370 | Tunuva craned her neck to see the catapults, which stood as tall as old bone towers. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 371 | A stab at her senses drew her gaze north. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 372 | ‘There,’ she announced, seeing the shape in the distance. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 373 | ‘It’s coming.’ ‘Release on my command,’ Esbar called to the soldiers. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 374 | ‘Not a moment before or after.’ Tunuva crouched on the edge of the cliff. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 375 | When the great wyrm came into the glow of the burning city, she said, ‘It’s the one that killed Lalhar. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 376 | The one that led the slaughter in Carmentum.’ ‘Dedalugun,’ Esbar said, as it moved closer and closer to the palace. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 377 | ‘That is what the Ersyris have called it.’ Begetter of ashes. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 378 | ‘It’s too near the Royal Fort,’ one of the soldiers warned. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 379 | ‘We have to release, or—’ ‘Wait.’ Dedalugun lifted itself with a sweep of its wings, and Esbar bellowed, ‘Now!’ The soldiers pulled on a rope, releasing the weight. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 380 | It hurtled downward, and the long arm of the catapult swung up to hurl the boulder high over Jrhanyam. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 381 | It tumbled over and over before it struck its mark full in the flank, hard enough to obliterate a building. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 382 | The soldiers roared in triumph. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 383 | Dedalugun banked away from the Royal Fort with a sound that made the cliffs tremble. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 384 | Below, the lesser wyrms and beasts echoed its cry. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 385 | ‘They’re bonded,’ Tunuva murmured. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 386 | ‘All of them. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 387 | Dedalugun is the master, the sire.’ ‘Good.’ Esbar grasped the spear. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 388 | ‘Let’s hope they all die together.’ Dedalugun had seen the threat. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 389 | Its eyes brightened like a pair of red suns. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 390 | ‘Move,’ Tunuva shouted to the soldiers, who ran for their lives just as the wyrm breathed explosive fire over the catapults, engulfing them in a cousin from within the safe nest of her bedding. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 391 | She still had a dry cough, and her skull felt too small for what was inside it. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 392 | She must hide the earth sickness at court. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 393 | Not for one moment could she appear weak. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 394 | Several guards had accompanied her through the city gate. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 395 | 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 | 396 | Drums beat out her approach. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 397 | Fascinated faces jostled for a look at hers. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 398 | For the first time in days, she was glad she could no longer see Mount Ipyeda, though its presence was like a cold wind at her back. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 399 | She could not look towards it. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 400 | Only ahead. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 401 | Yet how could she help but think of her mother, who had lived here as a child? |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 402 | Unora had slept in one of these mansions, played under the willow trees that leaned over the cart. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 403 | The rooftops of Antuma had been painted every colour imaginable; from above, the city was one great rainbow. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 404 | As for the palace, it was larger than Dumai had ever imagined. |
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