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The Red Luna: The Queen of the Flames Chapter Seventeen
ELOWENThe maids never knocked before entering my chambers. They had learned years ago that I was always already awake, already dressed, already done with whatever the morning required of me before they arrived with their trays and their careful deference. I did not know if this impressed them or unsettled them. I had stopped trying to tell the difference.I was at my embroidery frame when Maret came in with the breakfast tray, her eyes dropping to the floor the moment she crossed the threshold the way they always did. Lady Elowen. Would you like the fire built up. Shall I open the shutters. I answered without looking up from the thread I was working — a pattern of silver wolves running the border of a wall hanging Thane had neither asked for nor would likely notice, but which I was making anyway because the pattern was difficult enough to require my full attention and my full attention was the only thing I had to give to something some days.That was the truth of my life in Ravenshal
The Red Luna: The Queen of the Flames Chapter Sixteen
THANEI heard the horses before the gate watch sent word.Twelve riders. The Crossfall banner, a black wolf's head on grey, visible through the watchtower window before I had finished reading the messenger's note. I stood at the window for a moment longer than necessary and then set the note down and went to meet him.Varyn Crossfall had not changed in the two years since I had last seen him. He was silver haired and broad shouldered, with the kind of face that had always made rooms settle around it — unhurried eyes, a mouth that defaulted to something close to warmth, the bearing of a man who had spent his entire life being the steadiest person in any crisis. He dismounted in the main courtyard with the ease of someone half his age and looked up at me on the steps with an expression that managed to be both respectful and paternal simultaneously. "Thane," he said.Not my lord. He had never called me that and I had never asked him to. It had always felt like the one honest thing betw
The Red Luna: The Queen of the Flames Chapter Fifteen
ROWENAI was already awake when she knocked.I had been sitting at my window for the better part of an hour, watching the sky above the mountain do nothing in particular, the way it does in the hour before dawn when the dark has run out of reasons to stay but the light has not yet committed to arriving. The dreams had pulled me up again. Not a new one this time. Just the burning hall, replaying with the patient insistence of something that needed to be understood.I opened the door before the second set of knocks.Eldra stood in the corridor with a single candle and no keeper at her shoulder, which was the first unusual thing. The second was her face. The authority was still there but something underneath it had shifted overnight; something that made her look, for the first time since I had known her, like a person carrying weight rather than a woman who had decided weight did not apply to her.She looked at me for a moment. Then she came inside and closed the door behind her.She did
The Red Luna: The Queen of the Flames Chapter Fourteen
THANEThey had put him in the guardhouse at the wall's northern section, a low stone room with a single torch and no windows, which was either instinct or wisdom on the part of the men who found him. Either way it was the right call.I smelled it before I opened the door.Not the man. That was the problem. Seven years of knowing Donric Wenn, his particular scent as familiar to my wolf as the stone walls of my own fortress, and there was nothing. The door opened and where Donric Wenn should have been there was only cold. Still and absolute, the way caves smell when they have not held living air for a very long time.My wolf recoiled. I did not let it show.Eldra entered behind me and stopped just inside the door. I heard the small sound she made, not quite a breath but not quite a word.Donric was standing in the center of the room.I had known this man since he was a boy of fifteen presenting himself for wall duty with his father's sword strapped to a back too narrow to carry it prope
The Red Luna: The Queen of the Flames Chapter Thirteen
THANEJulius had been at the foot of my bed again.I had lain there after waking and stared at the ceiling and refused to think about the corridor. Then I got up, dressed, and went to the council chamber, which was what I did when there was nothing useful to be done about a thing. †††††††††††††††††††††††††The council session had been running for two hours and was supposed to concern the eastern trade route disruptions that had been cutting into the clan's winter supply lines for the better part of a month. Commander Reyn had prepared figures. The head steward had prepared a counter proposal. I had read both documents before entering the chamber and had a position on neither of them because my concentration was in pieces and had been since the corridor and I was too disciplined to let that show so I asked questions instead and let them talk.Eldra sat at the far end of the table. She had not been invited. She had arrived with her keeper Soren at her shoulder and t
The Red Luna: The Queen of the Flames Chapter Twelve
ROWENAThe Information Wing did not look like a place that kept secrets. That was the first thing I noticed.It was well lit, almost aggressively so. With oil lamps at every station, no dark corners or no shadows were permitted to accumulate anywhere for long. The shelves were organized with a precision that bordered on devotion, each scroll and bound record labeled and dated in a uniform hand. The four keepers who ran the wing moved between the stations with the brisk efficiency of people who had grown accustom to the practice. It was the most controlled space I had encountered in the Sanctuary. Which told me, more clearly than anything else could have, that this was exactly where the things worth finding were kept.I had been assigned to the copy station, transcribing trade records from deteriorating parchment onto fresh ones, a task that was tedious enough to be beneath the senior acolytes' attention and close enough to the main archive shelves to be useful to me. I kept my head d
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