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The Second Shore Chapter 37
Outside the room, Lionel heard the noise and put his head cautiously around the door.“Your Majesty? Shall I send men to—”“Let her go.” The voice that came back from inside was hoarse past bearing, and there was a calm in it that came from having stopped wanting anything at all. “No one stops her.
The Second Shore Chapter 36
The seventh day, toward evening.The fever had come down somewhat and Lucien was lucid again, though still weak. Evelyn came into the inner room carrying a bowl of thin, plain broth.He didn't reach for it. He only looked at her, and the look was heavy, and there was one last thin thread of hope som
The Second Shore Chapter 35
Something closed hard on Lucien's heart, and the pain of it nearly stopped his breathing.What he had wanted had never been this—a surrender given out of despair, because she'd been left nothing else.But it had come to this, and what else was there for him now?“I don't go back on my word,” he said
The Second Shore Chapter 34
The royal residence was heavily guarded, and not one man there made any attempt to stop her.She walked in without a hand raised against her and was shown through to a pavilion built out over the water.Lucien stood at the window with his hands behind his back, looking out at a pond of dying water l
The Second Shore Chapter 33
Evelyn stood holding that piece of paper and looking at the mark of the imperial physicians' dispensary printed on the corner of it, and said nothing for a long time.The shop somehow acquired trouble with the local toughs, who started coming by to make a nuisance of themselves and to make them pay
The Second Shore Chapter 32
Lucien closed his eyes.When he opened them, the enormous storm behind them had gone quiet, and what was left in its place was a flat, dead, bottomless waste.He raised one hand slowly and made the sign to the soldiers around him.Withdraw.They looked at one another. But nobody was going to refuse
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