00a Triane's Son: Ascending by Lane Amy

Author:Lane, Amy [Lane, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Aylan did not go immediately to his room.

Instead, he took a zig in the hall when he ordinarily would have zagged, and found himself in the older girls' dormitories, pounding on the door of the plump blonde girl who had so willingly giggled her way into his bed the night before. Until he actually felt his fist hit the wood, he could have sworn he didn't know her name.

Her slightly wandering blue eyes widened in alarm when she opened her door, and before she could even squeak, "You're not supposed to be here …" he had forced his way into her room. "You. Go,” he barked at her roommate, and without even bothering with a robe the other girl (another conquest, but long, long ago) had fled.

"Why?” he asked tightly, watching her face for clues. He saw full understanding dawn instantly, but then her eyes darted to the side, and she pulled her most idiotic smile from the tips of her toes.

"Why what?" Her tongue darted out and licked her upper lip, and he came as close to striking a woman as he ever had in his life.

"Why Aldam, you traitorous bitch?" He didn't flinch with the harsh word, but she did. In fact, her eyes grew bright, and when they met his all pretense had drained away.

"It was supposed to be the other one," she answered, more intelligence in her face than he'd seen to date. "Ellyot …"

"Torrant?"

"Everybody knows he's the last Moon!” she cried impatiently. "I don't know why the professors and the future Queen of Otham bother to treat him like a simple healer!"

Aylan advanced a step, close enough to see the flaws in her skin, and the asymmetrical nature of her eyes and mouth, and breathed hard through his teeth. "Lyssia, what, exactly, makes you think he's the last Moon?"

The girl paled. "In Clough," she murmured, looking somewhere past his left shoulder, "they circulate copies of a picture Rath claims survived the fire. It shows two sets of twins—nobody knows their names. In fact, one of the younger ones was rumored to be …" her mouth twisted in disdain, "tainted by the whore's moon. They said that's why Moon never revealed his name in his list of heirs. But the other one was Ellyot Moon, and this … boy, your friend, looks more like him everyday."

Ellyot was the stronger one. Aylan actually wondered, for a moment, if it weren't true, if Torrant hadn't become deranged by the deaths of his family and his terrible flight across the mountains and become someone else, but reality came back to him with a thump.

"Was that before or after you saw him in the noble's classes, like politics and fencing, darling?” he asked with a sneer, and had the satisfaction of watching Lyssia flush.

"Why would he be taking them if he didn't plan on coming back to Clough to take his place?" she flung out desperately, and Aylan seized her shoulders and shoved her back against the wall.

"What's it to you?” he snarled.

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