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50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 405 | When she reached it, she would meet her sister, Princess Suzumai, the child she would eventually usurp. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 406 | Treading with care, Emperor Jorodu meant to confirm Dumai as his heir only after three years. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 407 | During those years, she would need to prove herself worthy of the throne, so the Kuposa could raise no objection. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 408 | She would receive a rigorous education in politics and law. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 409 | You will have to learn to be an empress, Lady Taporo had told her, in a very short amount of time. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 410 | It will not be easy. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 411 | The cart rolled, the drums thundered, and at last, the people of Antuma fell away, unable to follow her any farther. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 412 | Dumai shut her eyes, her skin clammy. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 413 | Great Kwiriki, please, let me not disgrace myself. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 414 | The clay wall of the palace loomed. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 415 | So did its western gate. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 416 | Over it, rooftops sloped towards the ground, silver glistening in their gables. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 417 | Dumai kept her eyes closed as her cart went across the moat. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 418 | At last, they stopped. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 419 | Courtiers and officials waited in a grand courtyard, their hair moulded into seashells, servants hovering close. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 420 | In unison, they bowed. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 421 | Her father stood in robes like hers. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 422 | His crown was a tower of coral and cowries, fronted with two silver dragons, a fist-sized dancing pearl between them. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 423 | Dumai went to her knees in front of the steps, on the mat that had been laid there. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 424 | ‘Daughter,’ her father said, loud and clear. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 425 | ‘Welcome to Antuma Palace. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 426 | Your new home.’ ‘Thank you, Your Majesty.’ He came to her and helped her stand. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 427 | Dumai looked up at him, so tired she thought she might sink through the ground. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 428 | ‘I have you.’ He tucked her hand into the crook of his arm. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 429 | ‘Lift your face. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 430 | Let them see.’ His kindness was a comfort. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 431 | She did as he asked as he led her up the steps, into the largest building she had ever beheld, with ornate gables and a roof thatched with water reed. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 432 | Inside shore, where Wulf wrenched his spear from a corpse with coiled horns and metal hooves. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 433 | As the wound smoked, he watched the glow leave its eye, an ember turning cold in its socket. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 434 | His own eye had puffed shut. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 435 | What had struck him, he had no idea. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 436 | He had lost count of the talons scraping at his mail, the beaks striking his helm. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 437 | He planted the end of his long axe in the sand. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 438 | Wheezing from the smoke, he scraped his hair from his eyes and peered towards Bithandun, so tired he was almost drunk with it, swaying. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 439 | The Silver Hall had not yet fallen, but its roof glowed with fire, and no amount of thrown water could quench it. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 440 | The wyrms had come for Virtudom, as Fýredel had sworn. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 441 | When your days grow long and hot, when the sun in the North never sets, we shall come. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 442 | A soldier ran into the sea to put out her burning clothes. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 443 | For three days and nights, they had battled an onslaught from the Iron Mountains: housecarls, raiders, people of every trade and rank. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 444 | All Hróthi were expected to be fighters, for theirs was a cruel land, a hard one. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 445 | The creatures of the Dreadmount could be slain, but not with ease. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 446 | Scale like tuff enclosed their bodies. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 447 | Some had vulnerabilities – places where the flesh gaped, often at the shoulder of the wing – but some were so encrusted, it was hard to find a weak point for a spear or sword to pierce. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 448 | He pulled off his helm and cloth mask to breathe, sweltering in his mail and wool. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 449 | Einlek had commanded everyone to cover as much of their skin as they could, and even Wulf had not been given leave to break the rule. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 450 | If you go about like some bare-chested berserker, so might others, Einlek had warned him. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 451 | Set an example. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 452 | Wulf had told him about the Inysh plan to move people underground. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 453 | Einlek would not brook it in his kingdom, except for bairns and those who were too old or frail to fight. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 454 | We do not hide in the dark in Hróth. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 455 | No one sings songs of trembling in tunnels. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 456 | If we die, we die with blades in hand. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 457 | We die in a way that will be remembered. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 458 | So they fought for their lives in their burning capital, hardly able to tell day from night. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 459 | They fought, and they fell, and they died by the hundred. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 460 | As Wulf tried to rally his strength, a lesser wyrm – a wyvern – swooped along the beach, unleashing fire. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 461 | He lunged over a wattle fence and landed in a crouch, his body acting before his mind had grasped the threat. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 462 | The fence burst into flame just as he rolled away from it, and the wyrmling swept its wings, lifting itself back towards Bithandun. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 463 | Spears went sailing after it, and hails of arrows flashed from the walls. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 464 | A gasping cry drew his attention. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 465 | A woman in mail was running towards him, drenched in dark blood and heaving for breath, with three serpents – before she passed. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 466 | He shook his head and returned to his needlework. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 467 | Siyu lay on top of the covers, one arm tucked under her head, hair swept over her face. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 468 | Tunuva sat beside her and brushed a few dark strands behind her ear. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 469 | She had slept this way since she was a child. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 470 | Stirring, she opened her eyes and blinked up at Tunuva. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 471 | ‘Oh, Tuva.’ She sat up and embraced her at once. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 472 | ‘Tuva, Imin says I must stay in here for a week. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 473 | And that I may not go beyond the valley at all, for a whole month. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 474 | Is it true?’ ‘Yes,’ Tunuva said, feeling her back heave with sobs. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 475 | ‘Hush, sunray, hush. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 476 | Imin will make sure the men keep you busy. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 477 | It will feel as if no time is passing.’ ‘But I can’t stay here,’ Siyu said, frantic. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 478 | ‘Please. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 479 | Will you ask the Prioress to forgive me?’ ‘She will, in time.’ Tunuva drew back and frowned at her tearstained face. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 480 | Her skin was a deeper brown, her hair still black all the way through, but otherwise she was the picture of Esbar. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 481 | ‘Siyu, you must know this punishment is lighter than it could have been. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 482 | The men do good work, important work. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 483 | Is it so bad to help them for a few weeks?’ Siyu met her gaze. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 484 | Something flickered in those thick-lashed eyes. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 485 | ‘No,’ she said. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 486 | ‘I just hate to be trapped inside. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 487 | And I’m ashamed.’ She drew a scuffed knee to her chest. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 488 | ‘I suppose Esbar didn’t want you to see me. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 489 | She told me I disgraced you both.’ ‘Esbar loves you with her soul, as we all do.’ ‘She loves the Mother more.’ ‘As we all must – but Siyu, I was there when Esbar gave birth to you. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 490 | You have made her so proud over the years. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 491 | This mistake is a small part of your life. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 492 | It does not define it.’ Swallowing, Siyu managed a nod. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 493 | Tunuva reached into her overskirt and took out the pouch. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 494 | ‘For you. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 495 | So you can smell the forest, at least.’ Siyu undid the tie. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 496 | When she saw the delicate blue petals in the pouch, she drew out the bloom and held it to her cheek, tears running again. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 497 | She had always loved dayflowers. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 498 | ‘Thank you.’ She sank against Tunuva. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 499 | ‘You’re always so good to me, Tuva. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 500 | Even when I’m a fool.’ Tunuva kissed the top of her head. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 501 | Even as she did, she remembered that Esbar could never be so tender with Siyu. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 502 | She and Imsurin did not have that freedom. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 503 | ‘I would like something in exchange,’ Tunuva said. |
50 | A Day of Fallen Night.txt | 504 | ‘I would like you to tell me a story.’ ‘What story?’ ‘The one that matters most.’ Tunuva stroked her hair. |
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