(eng) Pamela Dean - Secret Country 02 by The Hidden Land

Author:The Hidden Land [Land, The Hidden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

THEY came to the end of the hills that evening, and made their first night’s camp just outside the last forest, on the edge of a plain that seemed to Laura to go on forever. Supper at Agatha’s fire was dull. Ellen tried to get her to talk about being Queen’s Counselor, but Agatha acted as if the request were an insult. Laura could not see how anyone who had ever been a Queen’s Counselor could sit around a fire at the edge of the woods and talk about sewing, but Agatha did it. Laura and Ellen gave each other speaking looks until that was boring, too. Before they could fall asleep or do something desperate, a boy about their age came to say that the King wanted them. Laura still went cold when she heard that. She and Ellen got up and followed the boy to Ted’s fire. He and Patrick and Matthew and Randolph and Fence were there.

Fence turned out to be a good storyteller, and Randolph could play something like a recorder, which sounded much better than most of the instruments in High Castle. Matthew, to Laura’s immense surprise, could sing, which he did at Fence’s request when, after six stories, Fence’s voice began to give out.

The first song he sang, she did not know. But at the first notes from the recorder, she saw Patrick, on Ellen’s other side, shoot upright from his lounging position, scattering Ellen and Fence with dry leaves. Laura looked quickly at Ted, who was on her other side, but almost on the other side of the fire as well, next to Randolph. He was frowning.

The song’s tune was sprightly; its words otherwise:

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