Instructing the Novice_A Kindred Tales PLUS Novel_Brides of the Kindred by Evangeline Anderson

Author:Evangeline Anderson [Anderson, Evangeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07M7139BC
Publisher: Evangeline Anderson Books
Published: 2019-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

“Damn these things, they’re so annoying! I’m sorry—would you give me a minute?” Lizabeth bent down to see that the long black ribbons which were wrapped around her calves and ankles had begun to unravel again. She began to retie the one on the right, muttering another curse under her breath as she did so.

The ribbons didn’t add much to the regular Mistress outfit of the silky white gown and long black vest in her opinion—-in fact, they were proving to be nothing more than a massive pain in the ass. But apparently she had to wear them because they denoted a new Initiate to Knowledge—it was Tower protocol.

“I can see to them if you wish, Mistress,” Lone offered. He was already bending towards her but Lizabeth waved him away.

“Don’t be silly, Lone—that’s like offering to tie my shoe. I’m an adult—I can manage.” She finished the right ribbon and then retied the left as well before straightening up. “All right,” she said to Joren and Mistress Anarrah, who had both come to meet them at their room after breakfast, in order to take them to Mistress Anarrah’s classroom. “I should be good for a couple more steps until they come untied again. Sorry.”

“Do not apologize, my dear.” Mistress Anarrah smiled serenely. “There is a trick to keeping them tied, you know.”

“Is there? I wish you’d teach it to me—they’re driving me crazy,” Lizabeth confided to her.

But the other Mistress only smiled.

“You’ll learn it in time, I should think. Come—my classroom is this way.”

She motioned down the long stone corridor which appeared to be where the original part of the mountain and the newer, man-made part of the Tower intersected. One half of the hallway was all bulges and swirls from where the water had shaped the rock—the other was straight and neat and orderly. The juxtaposition gave the long corridor a strangely surreal effect and Lizabeth felt, not for the first time, that she was somehow trapped in a dream.

Only in a dream would I be dressed like this and having the kind of inappropriate relationship with my assistant that I’ve been having since we got to the Tower, she thought.

As she thought that, they came around a curve in the corridor and Lizabeth saw another one of the large wooden doors bound in bronze. But this one had a lock on it and a yellowed paper sign that looked tattered and old was hung from a string on the knob.

“Silence please—meditation in progress.”

“Oh, what’s that room?” Lizabeth asked in a low voice, pointing.

“The Meditation Grotto,” Joren answered promptly, but in a normal tone which made Lizabeth wince and hope they weren’t disturbing whoever was meditating.

“Don’t worry my dear, the only one in there is Mistress Goldahh and she hasn’t emerged in five cycles,” Mistress Anarrah said.

“She’s been meditating for five whole cycles?” Lone frowned. “Isn’t that a long time?”

“Well, I suppose it is.” Mistress Anarrah looked sad. “But you see, she decided to take a vow of silence and locked herself in there after her Novice died rather suddenly.

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