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Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 690
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 688
Point of View: Kieran (Male Lead)"I am not asking you to lie, Kieran. I am asking you to be kind. Tell the families the stones are resting. Let the children enjoy the founding day. If you frighten a thousand people, who will you blame when they stampede?"Councilor Halbrook was not a bad man. That was what made him so hard to argue with.He stood at the head of the long chamber table with his hands behind his back, tall and stooped, his white hair combed flat. The room was hot, with a fire roaring in the grate and too many people in too little space. Chalk dust hung in the light from the high windows. I had been standing for an hour, and my bad knee had begun to throb."The assembly is in two weeks," Halbrook said. "Families will travel from every district. Some will bring babies. Some will bring grandmothers who have not left their villages in a decade. You want to stand on the dais and tell all of them that the old stones are screaming.""Calling," I said."I do not see the differe
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 687
Point of View: Rhen (Female Lead)"Do not walk into that house expecting thanks, Rhen. Greywater did not go silent by accident. Someone made them sorry they ever spoke. If that someone was the Concord, we are not guests. Prepare yourself. We are the reason."It took us two days to reach Greywater, and I hated every mile.The road ran north through drowned meadows and reed beds, where the mud sucked at the wheels and the wind carried the smell of old tar. Isolde drove. Wenna sat in the back of the cart, wrapped in a blanket, with Orla's lamp in her lap. She had asked to come. I had said she did not have to. She had said, "I know, ma'am. That is why I am asking."On the second evening, we saw the house.It stood alone on a spit of dry ground, grey as the sky, with moss on its roof and no smoke from its chimney. A single light burned in one window. It was small and yellow and steady, and I felt my chest tighten at the sight of it."Somebody is home," Wenna said softly."Somebody is alway
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 686
Point of View: Kieran (Male Lead)"Stop guarding me, Kieran. You have guarded me since the day I could not finish a seal. I am tired of being the one who cannot be trusted with the door. Let me open it. Let me prove I am useful."It was the twelfth night, and the stone on Hollow Reach hill had begun to hurt to stand near.We had tried everything we knew. Wenna's circle sat in shifts. Perrin and I took turns at the foot of the stone, doing nothing, which turned out to be exhausting. The count had grown louder each day, and the pause at the end of it shorter. By the second week the stone sounded like a crowd of people all trying to speak at once.Dorian had said nothing for three days. Then he stood in the doorway of the hut, buttoning his coat, and said he was going up the hill."Why?" I asked."To open the dispersal.""No.""I did not ask you.""Dorian." I put down my cup. "You know what the Hesitation does. It takes you in the middle of a seal. Some days you finish and some days you
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
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