Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore

Author:Kristin Cashore
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: DIAL
Published: 2012-04-24T05:00:00+00:00

P A R T T H R E E

Ciphers and Keys

(Late September and October)

23

IT WAS NOT a straightforward cipher alphabet. When Bitterblue isolated Ashen's twenty-six embroidery designs on the chest and applied the top left-most design, a star, to the letter A, the next in the row, a waning moon, to the letter B, and so on, then tested the resulting symbol alphabet against her mother's sheets, she got nothing but gibberish.

She tried applying the bottom right-most symbol to the letter A and working her way up the chest backward. She tried running up and down the chest in columns.

None of it worked.

Very well, then; perhaps there was a key. What key would Ashen have used?

Taking a steadying breath, Bitterblue removed the repeating letters from her own name and armed herself with the resulting alphabet.

B I T E R L U V W X Y Z A C D F G H J K M N O P Q S

Then she applied it to the symbols on the chest, starting again at the upper left:

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