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Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 685
Point of View: Rhen (Female Lead)"You said nothing for forty years, Mother. You mouthed the words and told no one you felt hollow. Do you know how I knew? Because I did the same thing, and I thought I was the only one."My daughter arrived at Hollow Reach on a farm cart, wrapped in three blankets, with Dorian driving and a face like a thundercloud."I tried to stop her," Dorian said, climbing down. "I want that on record. I tried very hard.""He sat on my coat," said Briar from the cart. "It did not work.""Briar," I said, in the voice I had used when she was seven, "you are meant to be resting.""I rested for ten days. I am now fully rested, and I am bored." She held out both arms. "Help me down, please. I am cross, and I am still your daughter."I helped her down. She was light as a bundle of sticks, and she held on to me a moment longer than she needed to. Over her shoulder I saw Kieran leaning against the hut wall with his arms folded, trying not to look pleased."You are not ang
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 684
Point of View: Kieran (Male Lead)"You can call it a theory, Kieran, but I call it a ledger. Five pieces of evidence, three witnesses, one missing card and four lamps. If I am right, we need a watcher on every stone by the assembly. Argue with me."I had not seen Rhen for eight days, and she looked ten years older and strangely lighter, like a woman who had set down a heavy sack. She met me at the door of the keeper's hut and put both arms around my neck without a word. I held her for a long time. She smelled of woodsmoke and cold air."You are thinner," she said into my coat."You are the one sleeping on a bench.""It is a very good bench."Then Marisol cleared her throat from the kitchen table, and we let go of each other like guilty children.The hut had one room and one table. Marisol had covered it with sheets of paper in her small square handwriting, weighted down with a loaf, a candlestick and Maud's blackened lamp. Isolde sat at the far end, writing. Perrin stood by the stove,
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 683
Point of View: Rhen (Female Lead)"I came back because I could hear it from the next valley, ma'am. Please do not thank me. I did not come back for the Concord. I came back because it sounded scared. And I want to know why that bothers me."It happened on the fourth morning, just as the sky turned the colour of dishwater.I was asleep on a bench in the keeper's hut, wrapped in two blankets, when the cups on the shelf began to rattle. Then the floor hummed. Then the whole hut shuddered like a horse shaking off flies. I was on my feet before I knew I had woken."Isolde!""I am here." She was already at the door, hair loose, her face pale. "Rhen, do you hear it?"I heard it. It was not the low sad hum from the nights before. It was a long hard note that rose and rose until my teeth ached, and under it the count came fast and furious. Three long. Two short. Three long. Two short.We ran. The frost cracked under our boots. Halfway up the hill, Marisol caught us, her coat thrown on inside o
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 682
Point of View: Kieran (Male Lead)"You waited until daylight and brought me tea, Father. Do you know what that tells me? That you thought I would break. I am the chair of this Concord, and I am not made of glass. Show me the fragment."I had practised the speech all the way back from Ashdown. Gently, in daylight, with a cup of tea in her hand. I had not practised being wrong.Briar sat on the edge of her bed with the cup untouched on her knee. She was thinner than she had been a month ago, and there were grey smudges under her eyes. The little cottage on the Concord ground smelled of lavender and old paper. Perrin hovered in the doorway, turning his cap round and round."I did not think you would break," I said."Then why did you hide it for three days?""I did not hide it. Perrin only told me this morning.""And you only told me this afternoon." Her voice stayed level, which was worse than shouting. "Do you remember what Mother said, in the Office? No more kind secrets.""I remember.
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 681
Point of View: Rhen (Female Lead)"Do not tell me it is only the wind, Rhen. I have sat on this hill for fifty years, and the wind has never once learned to count. Listen again. Three long, two short. It is asking us something."Night came down hard on Hollow Reach. The cold got into my knees and stayed there. Maud sat on her folded blanket with the little lamp beside her, and Isolde and Marisol had pulled their cloaks tight on either side of me. Nobody had spoken for a long time.Then the hum came again. It was low and sad, and I felt it through the soles of my boots before I heard it with my ears."There," Maud said. "Count it.""One, two, three," I whispered. "Then two quick ones.""And then?""Then nothing.""Good." Maud nodded slowly. "You heard the nothing. Most people do not. They are too busy waiting for the next note."Marisol leaned forward, her breath smoking in the lamplight. "Mistress Maud, how long has it done this?""Since the night the young ones left. Six nights now."
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 680
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
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