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Three Lives, Two Mates, One Enemy CHAPTER 106
AmaraThe northern territory needed a name before it needed anything else, because a place without a name is a place anyone can claim, and we were done letting things go unnamed.We were three weeks into the work of it... the slow careful building that Rell had handed to Aldric and Aldric had handed to all three of us because that's what he does with things that need more than one kind of careful. We'd ridden the boundary twice. We'd met with four of the six remaining packs inside it. We'd set up a waystation registry, which Aldric had insisted on because he is constitutionally incapable of letting a system exist without documenting it, and which had already saved us two arguments about who held which crossing.I was sitting on a hill on the eastern edge of the territory on a morning that had actual warmth in it, the first real warmth since the cage, the kind that means spring is not a rumor anymore but an intention. Zane was beside me eating something Bram had packed and pretending n
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BramSela asked me to marry her on a Tuesday, which I only know because she'd been keeping a tally on the wall and she told me afterward it was a Tuesday, like the day mattered, like she'd been waiting for the right day and Tuesday had finally come around looking acceptable.She did it the way she does everything... sideways, fast, not giving me time to prepare a response that was anything other than honest.We were in the long shed. I was checking the cold-bitten leg she never lets me check properly, the one she'd been walking on for months without complaint because complaining about the leg was, in her words, admitting the leg had won. She was sitting on the table eating an apple that was definitely mine, talking about the northern territory and what it would need come spring, and then in the middle of a sentence about drainage she said, "We should get married," and took another bite of the apple.I stopped what I was doing."You're serious," I said."I'm always serious. I'm also of
Three Lives, Two Mates, One Enemy CHAPTER 104
SeraphineAmara found me in the keeper-house, which is where I end up most mornings now, sitting with Wren while she works the cord and talks to the thing on the other end of it. I don't participate. I just sit. There's something steadying about being in the room where the covenant lives, the same way there's something steadying about being near a fire you didn't build but trust to stay lit.Wren was mid-conversation when Amara came in, the particular still-faced concentration she gets when the entity is saying something she's trying to hold exactly right before she writes it down. Amara sat across from me and waited, which she's always been good at, and when Wren finally set the cord down and reached for the journal, Amara looked at me."Zane went to the waystation," she said.I knew immediately. Of course I knew. I'd mentioned Davan once, quietly, to Bram, and Zane had been in the room, which I should have accounted for because Zane is always in the room."Is he alive," I said. I al
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Zane On the fifth day back I went to find Davan myself, because Seraphine wasn't going to and somebody had to, and because I am constitutionally incapable of leaving a thing that needs doing undone when I know about it. Seraphine had mentioned him once, quietly, to Bram, thinking I wasn't in the room. I was in the room. I'm always in the room. Being the one people underestimate has its uses. The waystation was a half-day north, on the road that used to be Corvus's supply line and was now just a road again, and I rode it on a horse that Bram had declared fit for short trips and a side that Bram had declared fit for moderate activity, which I was interpreting generously. Davan was exactly where Barath said... running the waystation the way someone runs a thing they've decided is their job whether or not anyone's officially told them it's their job. He was mid-forties, compact, with the look of a man who'd spent twenty years in someone else's service and had recently had to figure out w
Three Lives, Two Mates, One Enemy CHAPTER 102
SeraphineThe Ridgeline road used to take four days in good weather with a proper column. The three of us made it in three, because Rell rides like she's owed something by the ground and Amara rides like someone who's stopped factoring comfort into the calculation, and I ride however the job needs me to ride, which in this case was fast.I knew the road. That was the whole point of my being there and also the whole difficulty of it. Every waystation we passed I'd built or rebuilt or stripped for parts when Corvus needed the timber elsewhere. Every fork I could tell you which pack had held it, which captain I'd put in place to hold it, what the captain's name was and whether they'd still be alive and whether they'd recognize me and whether recognizing me would make things better or worse."You've gone quiet," Rell said, on the second day."I'm navigating.""You're navigating a road you could ride blind. Try again."I looked at the hills we were passing through, the particular shape of
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RellI gave them one day.One day to be back in the world, to eat Bram's porridge and sit in the yard and look at the sky and do all the things people do when they've been somewhere they weren't supposed to survive and have survived it anyway. One day because I'm not a monster and because they'd earned it and because Seraphine told me, with the flat certainty she uses when she means it, that if I walked in there with my list before they'd had a morning she would personally put me through the wall.I gave them the day.On the second morning I called the meeting."Barath first," I said, when we were all seated... the three of them, Wren on the end with the cord in her fist as always, Sela beside Bram, Seraphine across from me, Corin in the corner with his journal. "He gave us thirty days. We're on day twenty-three. He's been south of the river every evening, counting.""He said thirty days thinking we'd fail," Amara said. She looked different in the morning light. All white hair and ste
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Amara He came at first light, the way the worst things always come. The boy who didn't sleep gave the warning. He came down off the high rock without a sound and put his hand on Aldric's shoulder, and Aldric was awake and standing before the boy finished the word. "East approach," the boy said. "
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Amara Bram put the water on. Of all the strange things about that morning, that was the strangest... that the woman who'd waited lifetimes at the edge of my fire now sat at it, wrapped her hands around a tin cup, and drank Olan's tea like any tired traveler who'd walked too far. We sat around her
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Amara We'd been moving for days, and the forest had stopped being a stranger to me. That should have been a comfort. It wasn't. "You've got your face on," Sela said, falling into step beside me, chewing something she'd taken from someone. "The one where you're doing sums nobody asked for." "I'm
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Amara "His feet are cold," my mother said from the doorway. "Build the fire up." I had my hands in the dishwater, and it had gone cold an hour ago, but I didn't say so. I dried them on my skirt and crossed to the fireplace and knelt on the stone where I had knelt a hundred times before. I coul
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