A Creature of Moonlight by Rebecca Hahn

Author:Rebecca Hahn
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

After that, there are only a few days left in the festivals, but they are the dullest, the longest days of the last two weeks. Lord Edgar does not come near me. I don’t go to him. The court is still split, but it seems halfhearted, the way the nobles go to their opposite sides of the room and cast the others looks and whisper secrets. By the end of the second day, they’ve started to meld back together again, and I even see Lord Theodore, who was a staunch supporter of the king, laughing jovially with Lady Beatrice, who’d been part of Lord Edgar’s circle. When Beatrice catches my eye, she flushes and looks away.

I talk with the lesser nobles and stay as close as I can to those from the country, who have the least to do with this drama. They are kind enough, and I smile more than not during these final dances, feasts, and games.

But the spins have lost their sparkle, and the stories, races, and sweets, which so excited me only days earlier, are bland, uninteresting. I let the nobles sweep me along from each event to the next, just putting one foot in front of the other.

My only joy these days comes late at night, when the others have gone to bed and the moon shines full through my bedroom window. Then I take out my bright knitting, and I dream of death. I don’t see the dragon again, but I’ve no need. I can hear his roar all through my skin. When I close my eyes, I can feel my mother’s hands, too, placed over mine, guiding me along as we finally, bit by bit, create her vengeance.

On those nights I can forget that I ever knew the Lord of Ontrei. I can keep from wondering, as I do on dark, cloudy nights when I’ve nothing to take me away from my thoughts, whether I did right, in truth, to reject him.

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