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Married Off as a Breeder, She Became His Only Mate. Chapter 120
Briony POVThe last stone went into the north wall on the first morning of hard frost, and it took two men and a quarter of an hour to do it, because Dorric and a Blackfen mason named Wick couldn't agree which way up it went. Dorric held that the grain should run flat and Wick held that it should run on edge, and they argued it in front of half the pack until Hale walked over, turned the stone on its side without a word, and dropped it into the gap himself. Dorric looked at Wick and Wick looked at Dorric, and then the two of them went off to find breakfast together, which by noon had become the story of how the wall got finished. I heard it four times before supper. Each version had a different winner.It had been six weeks since the candles in the north field, and I stopped waking up braced for a horn. I sat on the council now, in a plain chair with a cracked rung that Maeve had found for me and I refused to let anyone mend, and I learned to keep quiet for the fir
Married Off as a Breeder, She Became His Only Mate. Chapter 119
Kieran POVBriony thought better with her hands busy, a thing I learned over the last month without anyone telling me, and so while I stood over the war room map with a stub of chalk she sat on the edge of the table peeling an apple in one long careful spiral. She had taken it off Halric's bench without asking. The iron disc lay between us on the marsh road where the rider had set it down, bright at the edge where somebody had filed it that week, and the lamp made a hard star of it.The rest of the house had gone quiet around us. Rourke's rider had been fed and put to bed over the kitchen, with Tansy promising to look in on her every hour, and the only sound left was a mason on the north wall who was still tapping away in the dark."A hundred and twenty," I said, for the fourth time. "In three weeks.""And they're not taking anything," Briony said. She laid a curl of apple peel across the salt works. "That's the clever part. Nobody joins an army b
Married Off as a Breeder, She Became His Only Mate. Chapter 118
Bettina POVBy the fourth week I had stopped counting the cots in my healing house, partly because the number had dropped below ten and partly because I'd grown superstitious about saying it aloud. Faro was the first one out. He left on his own legs, carrying a crutch he didn't need, and he stood in my doorway that morning and told me very seriously that he would never be ill again, and then handed me a small bag of dried apricots to seal the promise.The wall was going up in the meantime, one crooked course at a time, and from the herb garden I could hear the hammering from first light, Ashvale carpenters and the Blackfen masons who had stayed behind after the others rode home, arguing in two accents over whether mortar ought to be mixed wet or dry. I had stopped minding it. It was a living sound, and I spent a month listening to the other kind."Again," I said.Briony sat across from me on an upturned crate with a clay dosing cup in her lap, and
Married Off as a Breeder, She Became His Only Mate. Chapter 117
Briony POVSomewhere behind the front row Faro wanted to know, in the carrying whisper of a boy who never learned the difference, whether somebody with those ribs was allowed to kneel, and Bettina's answer was a single flat "No," which Kieran must have heard, because one corner of his mouth moved, although he stayed exactly where he was. He kept both hands flat on his thigh where I could see them, and I understood it was deliberate, since the last time he reached for me it had been in the dark with a blindfold between us and a rope pulled tight at the stone."I had a speech," he said. "Rowan helped me with it, there was a part about the stars, and I've forgotten every word, so I'll have to say it badly.""You can say it badly," I said, and he nodded the way a man nods before stepping off a ledge."Good, because I'm going to." He drew a breath that I watched hurt him. "The night of the binding I told you that you were a mistake wearing my mark, and
Married Off as a Breeder, She Became His Only Mate. Chapter 116
Briony POVI heard Sage before I saw her, because she had never learned to walk quietly across grass and had decided that a sling was no reason to start. She came along the dark edge of the field with her cloak pulled over the bad arm and her boots swishing, stopped at the foot of the grave, looked at the gray stone, and lowered herself to the ground with a grunt, since standing, she explained, had started to cost more than it was worth."You've got wax on your hand," she said."I know.""Then stop holding that candle over the grass like you're threatening it." She waited, and when I only went on watching the flame she reached across with her good hand, took it from me, and pressed the stub into the loose dirt beside the stone, where it leaned a little and then righted itself. "There. Nobody's been hurt."For a while we both listened to the names. Rowan's voice came across the field, steady and a little hoarse, followed by Dessa's flatter
Married Off as a Breeder, She Became His Only Mate. Chapter 115
Briony POVBy late afternoon the Blackfen camp on the hill had turned into something nearer a second village than a siege, with Ashvale's cooks running stew up the slope in washtubs because Hale had decided from a stool by the kitchen door that anyone who bled on our wall could eat from our fire.It was a strange sort of peace, held together by stew and small embarrassments. A Blackfen woman with a bad hand sat on our kitchen step mending one of our children's boots because the child had lost a bet to her son, and Dorric stood over the two of them for twenty minutes with his arms folded and found nothing to object to, which seemed to annoy him more than an objection would have. Two of Rourke's riders had been seen helping Hale shift the water barrels, and Hale had been seen letting them.Dessa's scouts came back down off the hill together just before sundown, muddy to the knees and looking like people who found exactly what they went looking for and wished
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