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Point of View: Kieran (Male Lead)"Father, stand where I can see you. If my voice breaks, nod once. Do not come up. Do not rescue me. Do not carry it for me. Just nod, and I will find the next word."The hall was so full that people stood three deep along the walls.I had never seen it like that. Every bench was packed, every aisle choked with shawls and elbows and small children perched on shoulders. The morning light came down through the high windows in long gold bars, and the air smelled of wool, bread and warm bodies. A thousand people, and every one of them was talking at once.Along the left wall, the district keepers had set out their boxes on the long table, as they did every founding day. Each box held a fragment. It was an old custom, a way of saying we are here. Nobody had told them what it might mean today.I took my place near the dais, beside a pillar, where Briar could see me. Rhen stood at my side, her hand through my arm. Dorian was a few steps away with Sable, very
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 689
Point of View: Rhen (Female Lead)"I counted because counting is what I am for, Rhen. And when the number came out wrong, I closed the book and went home. Do you know what that is? That is not a clerk. That is a coward with good handwriting."We reached the Concord the evening before the assembly, and the whole ground was a field of tents.Families had come from every district. Smoke rose from a hundred cook fires. Children ran between the guy ropes, shrieking, and a boy chased a hen through the mud while his mother shouted at him. A fiddler played somewhere. It was the loudest, happiest noise I had heard in a month, and it made my eyes sting."They do not know," Isolde murmured, climbing down from the cart."No.""Should we tell them tonight?""Kieran will do it tomorrow. In the hall, in front of everyone." I put a hand to my aching back. "Tonight I need to speak to a clerk."The Reading Room stood at the back of the grounds, a long low building smelling of ink and dust. A single lam
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 678
Point of View: Kieran (Male Lead)“Do not look at my hands, Kieran. Look at theirs. I cannot seal a binding cleanly, I never could, but ten years ago I decided that was a reason to teach, not a reason to hide.”Dorian stood at the edge of the practice yard with his arms folded and his gaze on the students. The yard was a long, flat stretch of beaten earth behind the Order’s old stone hall, ringed by a low wall, with ten small circles chalked on the ground. In each circle knelt a pair of young people, shoulder to shoulder, their palms hovering over a little iron bowl of ash.I leaned on the wall. A cold wind came off the hills, smelling of woodsmoke and wet leaves. My back ached, and my heart ached worse. I had come here to be alone, and found him instead.“I did not mean to stare,” I said.“You were staring at my right hand. Everyone does. It is the one that shakes when I close a seal.” He held it up. It was a plain, scarred hand, brown and strong, and a faint tremor ran along the knu
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 677
Point of View: Rhen (Female Lead)“Mrs. Rhen, may I ask something rude? Everyone keeps calling me the proof. I am nineteen years old, I have never held a bow, and I would like to know whether I am a person or an exhibit.”I looked up from the stack of letters I had been writing. The reading room was warm and gold with late afternoon. Perrin stood in front of the great oak table with his hat crushed in both hands, his face as pink as a boiled shrimp. He had not meant to say it so loudly. I could tell. He was waiting to be thrown out.“Sit down, child,” I said.“I did not mean to be impolite.”“It was not impolite. It was the first honest question anyone has asked in this room all week.” I patted the bench beside me. “Sit.”He sat. He looked at the table, where Briar’s wooden desk had been dragged against the wall and Odalys sat behind it with a pile of fresh paper. Briar herself was in a chair by the stove, wrapped in blankets, forbidden to write, holding a cup of broth she was not dri
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 676
Point of View: Kieran (Male Lead)“You are all looking at me as if I stole something. I only counted what was already missing. Nineteen posts, four people, and a woman in a sickbed holding the whole thing together with a pen and her pride.”Marisol stood in front of the long chart, which Sable had carried down to the council hall and hung from the beam over the fireplace. Forty keepers filled the benches. Some were angry. Some were ashamed. Some stared at their boots. The hall had never been so quiet, and I could hear the little ticking sound of the iron stove cooling.“It is a public ledger,” Sable said from the table. Her arms were crossed. “Isolde and I decided. We could not run the Office in the dark any more. If the Concord wants to know why a chair collapsed, it should see the numbers.”“It is humiliating,” muttered someone at the back.“It is arithmetic,” said Isolde.I sat at the end of the table with my hands folded and my stomach turning. Elara sat beside me with her brass p
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Point of View: Rhen (Female Lead)“Mama, do not cry. I fainted, that is all. Put the kettle on and give me my pen, because the assembly is in six weeks and I have a speech to finish.”I looked at my daughter propped on three pillows in the infirmary bed, pale as milk, with a bruise blooming on her temple and her chin lifted like a general’s, and I did the only thing a woman could do. I burst out laughing.“What?” said Briar.“You were unconscious for two days,” I said, wiping my eyes. “Two. And the first thing you ask for is a pen.”“It is a very good pen.”“Briar.”“I am only being practical.” But her mouth trembled, and she looked at the blanket. “I know. I know what you are going to say.”“Do you?”“You are going to say no.”“I am going to say no,” I agreed, and sat down on the edge of the bed. The straw mattress creaked. The infirmary smelled of lavender and boiled linen, and a thin yellow light fell across the floor from a high window. Beside the bed, Marisol sat in a wooden chai
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