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Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 675
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
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 674
Point of View: Kieran (Male Lead)“Kieran, walk very fast and do not run, because the keepers are watching. Briar went down in the middle of the roll call, and Isolde says she was still smiling when she hit the floor.”Sable said it in my ear with her hand clamped on my elbow. I did not walk. I ran. I do not remember the corridors, only the sound of my own boots and a rushing in my ears like the sea.The Tending Office was full of frightened faces. Keepers pressed against the walls. A clerk stood holding the roll book open in both hands as if it might help. In the middle of the floor, on the bare stone beside the overturned stool, lay my daughter, her hair spread out, her gray dress crumpled, and one hand still curled around a pen.Dorian knelt at her head. He had slid his folded coat beneath her neck. Rhen knelt beside him with Briar’s limp fingers between both of hers, and she was whispering something over and over that I could not hear.“Is she breathing?” I said.“She is breathing
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 673
Point of View: Rhen (Female Lead)“Briar, I asked for one day. One. Let me stand beside you and count what you do, because if I do not see it with my own eyes, I will never believe what it costs you.”“Mama, you will be bored in an hour.”“Then I will be bored.”The Tending Office was a long, low room above the archive, with high windows and twelve desks and only four people to sit at them. A copper bell hung by the door. Every time it rang, someone groaned. I took a slate and a stick of chalk, sat on a stool in the corner, and began to make little marks, one for every task I saw Briar begin.By the time the sun cleared the window, I had eleven.She answered a letter from the Salt Coast, wrote a second to the northern hills, and signed a pile of sheets without reading half. She greeted two nervous keepers at the door and sent them away comforted. She argued with a clerk about candle wax. She checked the roll book, found a line late, wrote a note, and sent a runner. She ate half a bisc
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 672
Point of View: Kieran (Male Lead)“Elara, I am asking you as a friend of fifty years to look at the page again. The Salt Coast copy matches Hedda’s tally exactly, and I need you to tell me honestly whether you want to be right or want to be true.”The Salt Coast hall smelled of tar and wet rope, even in the middle of the Concord ground, because Elara had insisted on hanging nets from the rafters and stacking driftwood by the hearth. It was her little piece of the sea. She sat before the fire with a shawl over her knees and her jaw set, and she did not look at the ledger lying open on the table between us.“I have looked at it three times,” she said.“And?”“And a page is a page. Anybody can copy numbers.” Her hands tightened on the shawl. “Hedda may have been tired or bitter. She may have wanted to blame somebody. The Salt Coast tally has been kept in my family for forty generations, and I have never read this entry in my life.”“Nobody asked you to. Odalys found it in your own archiv
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 671
Point of View: Rhen (Female Lead)“Briar, put down the pen. You have been staring at that blank page since sunrise, your tea has gone cold twice, and your hand is shaking. Tell me what you are writing. I am your mother, and I am not leaving.”My daughter did not look up. She sat at the great oak table in Wren’s reading room with a clean sheet in front of her and Marisol’s gray coat still hanging off her shoulders. The morning had come up pale and thin through the dome, and dust turned slowly in the light. Around her, the three piles of paper lay where Odalys had left them. Nobody had touched them since dawn, as if they might bite.“I am writing a speech,” Briar said.“For whom?”“For the decennial assembly. For every line of the Concord.” She dipped the pen and held it over the page. A single black drop swelled on the nib and fell. “I cannot get past the first sentence.”“What is the first sentence?”“The Marrow broke the First Concord.” She said it flatly, the way a person reads a na
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 670
Point of View: Kieran (Male Lead)“Kieran, wake up. Do not argue yet. Odalys has been crying for an hour, and she says the story we told our children for ten years is a story about the wrong thing.”I am Kieran, and I opened my eyes on a hard bench, and my wife was kneeling over me with her fingers digging into my sleeve like claws.“I am awake,” I said.“You are not. You are only upright.”“Rhen, what story?”“The one about why the First Concord broke.” She was white to the lips. “The one we put in the charter. The one Briar read aloud at the opening of the assembly, ten years ago, with her hand on the heron seal.”I sat up. My neck cracked. A cold hand closed on my chest.“I fought for that story,” I said. “I bled for it. Do not tell me it is false.”“I am not telling you anything. I am telling you to come and sit at the table.”“Rhen.”“So did I,” she said, very softly. “Fight for it. So come and sit.”I went.The reading room was filling with a thin gray light. Briar was awake, wr
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