The SoulBorn Queen
Or maybe impending death had given her some clarity about the true nature of her children, her husband.
I set down the fork and watched the flames of our meager fire dance along the remaining logs, stretching out my aching legs beneath the table.
I turned to my sisters. As usual, Celina was complaining about the villagers—they had no
manners, they had no social graces, they had no idea just how shoddy the fabric of their clothes was, even though they pretended that it was as fine as silk or chiffon. Since we had lost our fortune, their former friends dutifully ignored them, so my sisters paraded about as though the young peasants of the town made up a second-rate social circle.