Chapter Eleven

SeleneMy fingers were raw from scraping grease off the pewter plates. I used the rough hemp rag, and my nail beds flaked into tiny white scales against the grainy wood of the wash tub. In the kitchen of the Green Gable, the smell of burned cabbage and wet timber mingled with the sour tang of second-rate ale that the drivers drained from their leather jacks after the afternoon service.Every time a gust of wind sneaked in through the heavy oak door in the hall, the wall-mounted candles, wick coated in a sheen of soot, flamed with the force of a miniature bellows. I had a dull throb right behind my eyes, a pressure that made the low grease lamps near the larder shimmer until it was hard to look. I couldn’t recall the name of the road that had brought me into this valley three months before.The thought slipped from my head like wet boots in mud. A space was vacant in the place where yesterday belonged, a foggy greyness like that which rose off the river flats on cold mornings. My thumb

Chapter Twelve

AylaLugh’s half of the bed is cold. My hand drags across the wool sheet before I am properly awake, a reflex the body engages while the mind lags. The fabric is flat, the bed not yet disturbed by him. I pull my hand back, my gaze catching the slit windows directly above the head of the bed. They let in the thin, indifferent grey of early morning light; a grey so early it doesn’t warm anything yet.Below, in the stone courtyard, one of the stable boys is scraping his iron shovel over the cobbles, hitting the same pitch on every third stroke. I hear the voices of two others near the hay loft, murmuring too low to pick up words, while silence rests heavy outside our chamber door because Lugh stayed down at his midnight watch.The hearth fire is out.I stand beside it, pulling on the left boot by habit, easing the metal buckle at the ankle over the toe. My fingers are clumsy with the morning chill. The jagged edge catches the wrong way twice on the skin below my thumb, nipping hard befor

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