Bride Of Eldoria
“Look at the eyes. One storm-grey, one star-silver. Born the moment the moon died. This one carries ruin in her bones.”
Lightning forked outside the window, turning the room corpse-white. In that flash every face looked flayed: the two younger midwives clutching their rosaries, the physician wiping his spectacles over and over though they were already clean, my mother—Lady Amalia Wynne—lying spent and pale, her golden hair dark with sweat, her famous beauty cracked open like porcelain.
Amalia turned her face to the wall.
“Take it away,” she said, voice raw. “I do not want to see it.”
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