The Girl Who Fell Into Myth by Kay Kenyon

Author:Kay Kenyon [Kenyon, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Winterset Books

Part III

The Embrace Of The Malwitch

Chapter Twenty-Three

A day later they came for her. Byasha reported that Yevliesza’s interference had contributed to the Bridge of the Moon disaster. Nashavety wasted no time in demanding Yevliesza’s imprisonment while evidence could be gathered.

As Yevliesza waited in a cell in the nethers, she tried to work out what had happened and why.

She had interfered with the aligners at their job, but whether disastrously or not, she wasn’t completely sure. The stone might have fallen even without her interference, fallen onto the jutting end of the bridge with the same awful result. She knew that the aligners below the bridge segment had lost their hold on the rock before she had joined their effort, but it was hard to deny that she had acted recklessly, even if she had meant to help.

She deserved to be here. It was harsh treatment, but her dark cell matched her self-assessment. Two people had died. They might not have if it hadn’t been for her.

Why had she rushed forward like that? Someone new to arcana training had no business trying to lift such a massive rock. But she hadn’t decided, it was a spontaneous thing, to try to help.

The sickening thought kept intruding: Or had it been to prove herself?

Now, after a sleepless night in the nethers, she stared vacantly through the bars, wondering if they would place all the blame on her and if they did, how they would punish her.

A noise down the passageway. Someone was coming. “Pyvel!” Yevliesza cried out softly.

Around him hovered that soft manifesting glow that she had seen him use before. It brought welcome relief from the permanent dusk of the dungeon.

“Lady Yevliesza,” he said, his voice breaking.

“I’m no lady,” she said, smiling, “As you see.”

“Well, I think you are.”

He had no reason to feel such loyalty to her. But she felt a surge of tenderness for him, almost like an aura all her own.

“You shouldn’t be seen here,” she said. “I’m a bad influence.” She hadn’t heard from anyone since the guards had taken her from the household, despite Valenty strongly objecting.

“I do not care what they think. And no one actually said I should stay away.” He produced an apple from his trouser pocket which she gratefully accepted.

“What are they saying about me?”

“Well, high folk. What do they ever say? But cook, and Floris and Grigeni, they are upset for you.” His aura of light dimmed as though reflecting his worries. “It will be all right, will it not?”

He was twelve years old, soon to be thirteen. Not a young child, and he deserved not to be coddled. “Some people need me to fail. To be an example of what happens when you deal with outsiders.” He mustn’t stay long and she still had so many questions. “How are the injured doing? And Byasha? I heard she broke her arm.”

“Both her arms are broken, so she will not be doing aligns for a while. Who the other wounded are, I have not heard, but I could find out.

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