MARKED BY THE ALPHA I WAS TOLD TO FEAR
Nell said, “and I’m not being carried, and I’ve a room in a chandler’s with a fire in it, and I’ll sit in that chamber till midnight if it means those men can’t go home early.”
“Sabe,” I said. “Nine of yours with me. Teilo takes two and goes round by the bridge with the forty-one on the cart.”
“And me?” Enid said.
Wren looked at her aunt for a long moment.
“You come with me,” she said, “because there’s a page under a floorboard in my house with forty-one names on it in my mother’s hand, and when we get there I want the woman who wrote the fair copies stood next to me reading it, in case there’s a word in it I’d miss.”