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Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Seven
NESSA POVI have given orders to a hundred men in my life, and I have never once been afraid of being heard. That afternoon I was afraid of being loud enough."North wall, on me!" I screamed into the gale. "Doran, ropes! Every rope, every line, every bit of cable! Pell, the grappling hooks! Move!"They moved. God love them, they moved. In two months the harbor crews had stopped treating me as a clever girl in a coat and started treating me as the person who knew where the reef was, and I had never been so grateful for anything in my life.The Blackthorn packet hit the Teeth at ten past four.I heard it more than I saw it, a long sick grinding as her keel dragged across the stone, and then her stern swung round with a groan of timber and stuck. Water boiled white around her hull. She was fifty yards from the end of the north wall and a hundred and fifty from the nearest dry rock, and every sailor on that wall knew what it meant."She'll break up," Doran said beside me, grim. "Ten minut
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Six
The ship came in on the seventh morning, and I told myself I was not at the window.I was at the window."He's early," Nessa said from the doorway, with a cup of tea she had not offered me."I haven't said a word.""You've said it with your whole back." She came in and looked down at the quay with me. The sails were still furled, the crew throwing lines, a figure at the rail already half over it before the gangway touched the stones. "Well. That's him."I did not run down. I want that on record. I took my time, I put on my shawl, I checked Kai's cap twice, and I was only slightly out of breath when I reached the foot of the stairs.Wren was out of the door before me."Papa!" she shrieked, and went across the cobbles like a small and determined cannonball. Marcus dropped his satchel and caught her mid-leap, and I saw him close his eyes for a second, as if the weight of her were something he had been carrying a long way in his dreams."I said it," he told her. "Come back.""Say it again
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Five
Marcus went down on one knee in my kitchen.He did it slowly, careful of the wounded shoulder, until his face was level with Wren's. Nobody breathed. Camille had a hand over her mouth. Finn was studying the ceiling beam with the intensity of a man trying not to be seen."I have to go home for a little while," Marcus said. "There are people there who need me.""Like us?" Wren asked."Not like you. You're the ones I need." He said it so plainly that something turned over under my ribs. "But they have been waiting a long time, and I owe them a visit. So I'll go. And then I'll come back.""When?""In seven days.""How many is that?"He held up his hand and spread his fingers. Then he folded two down, slowly, and showed her. "Five and two. Count them with me."Wren put her thumb back in her mouth and considered his hand with enormous suspicion. Then she took her thumb out and said, "You have to say it again when you come back.""Say what?""That you came back."His throat moved. "I'll say
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Four
MARCUS POV My hands smelled like salt and rope. I was scrubbing them in a bucket at the back of the warehouse when Pell's grandson came running to say I had visitors, and by the time I got up the stairs of Elena's house I already knew.Nobody comes across the sea in mid-season to talk about weather.Camille was in the kitchen, in the same chair she'd sat in when I was twelve and had cut my hand on a broken jar and she'd bound it with a clean rag and said, Don't you dare cry, you're an Alpha's son. Finn stood behind her. Elena sat at the end of the table, still, with her hands flat on the wood. She looked at me when I came in and then looked away, quickly. That was how I knew it was bad, and that it wasn't hers."Sit down, boy," Camille said."I'd rather stand.""I'd rather you didn't fall." She pushed out a chair with her foot. I sat.For a long moment nobody spoke. Down in the street someone was laughing at a joke. The ordinary sound of it was almost unbearable."It's about Damon,"
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Three
Corin made him wait.I know because I was at the counting house window upstairs, pretending to check a shipping manifest, and I watched Marcus stand in the doorway below for a full quarter of an hour while Corin finished a letter, blotted it, read it again, and sanded it. Marcus did not shift his weight once. He stood with his hands behind his back like a soldier waiting for sentence."You're staring," Petra said from the next desk."I'm reviewing the manifest.""It's upside down."I turned it over. Petra grinned and went back to her accounts, but her pen had not moved in ten minutes either.Downstairs, Corin finally looked up. I could not hear what was said, only the shapes of it, so I leaned out a little farther than was dignified. Corin's mouth was hard. Marcus spoke briefly. Corin said something shorter. Then Corin stood, walked around the desk, and looked Marcus up and down like a horse he had no intention of buying.Petra gave up on pretense and came to the window with me. "He's
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Two
They held the trial on the quay, in the open, because Aldous Brandt said a city that had been robbed in daylight should judge in daylight.Someone had hauled the council table out onto the stones and bolted a chair to either end of it. The wind came in off the water, smelling of tar and old smoke, and it lifted the corners of every paper Elara had stacked in front of her. She pinned them down with her inkwell and did not look up when they brought Ashra out.Ashra walked between two guards with her chin high. They had taken her silver rings and her cloak, and someone had given her a gray prison shirt two sizes too big, but she wore it like court dress. She found me in the crowd at once. She smiled the way you smile at a stranger who owes you money."Don't," Marcus murmured beside me."I'm not doing anything.""Your hands are."I looked down. I had Kai's little knitted cap crushed in my fist. I smoothed it flat and tucked it into my sleeve. Kai was at the house with Marta's niece, and W
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