Closed Doors and Broken Mirrors by S R Nulton

Author:S R Nulton [Nulton, S R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-14T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8: AN APPLE A DAY...

SNOW WHITE

Despite my threats to wheedle the information out of Mama about her and the captain, I never quite managed it. Two weeks of near daily correspondence and nothing. She’d neatly dodged all my pointed questions and started teasing me about James in return. Which made absolutely no sense! I mean, we were friendly, but nothing more.

Weren’t we? I wondered once again as we headed into a familiar village. It was the closest to our ‘base camp’, as Earyn called it, so we were pretty well known there. It allowed me to split my attention between greeting people and pondering the question that plagued me. James hasn’t treated me any differently lately. I mean, sure he’s been nicer to me, but that’s because we finally understand each other! And he never flirted with me. Except… I’m not very knowledgeable about men. Maybe he did and I missed it?

The problem was that he was so quiet! He rarely teased or showed emotion. Okay, that wasn’t exactly true. He did tease me, but very lightly. Nothing like I’d read about in all those novels. And he really wasn’t as quiet with me as he had been. Actually, he loved to ask me deep questions and then listened attentively while I worked through my answer. There was never a rush. And he did show emotion, but only in his eyes, which had become significantly less guarded over time. Really, he’d been burned by the nobles too much to show much in the way of facial expressions, but he was loosening up. And maybe he’d been sticking closer ever since we’d visited my mama and the Fey captain.

Oh… I blinked as it all snapped together and I turned immediately to look at James.

He lifted a brow, silently asking me what was wrong. I just shook my head. There would be time to talk to him after we got back to the base.

We even understand each other when we don’t speak!

“Greetings! What news have you?” asked the mayor.

I let my thoughts shift away from a possible romance and back to the matter at hand. “Good news, actually. I’ve met with representatives from five other countries and they have been made aware of what we face.”

The gathering crowd began to murmur, but quieted when I began to speak again.

“Alenia and Lettelach have both allied themselves with the people, as have the Fey Forest, Mindep, and Shessat.” Cheers rang out as they acknowledged that they weren’t alone anymore in the fight. The common people might want to rebel but they were all too aware that the king could request help from his allies in putting down the resistance. I’d basically just told them that we’d cut off his legs. “Also, we are working on a plan of action to help correct the problems in this country, starting with the taxes you are facing.”

“You mean we won’t have to pay taxes anymore?” someone called out.

I put on my saddest face, knowing that they would understand if they thought I sympathized and didn’t speak down to them.

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