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chapter 652
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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
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
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