The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel by Anne Fortier

Author:Anne Fortier [Fortier, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780345536228
Amazon: 0345536223
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2014-03-11T04:00:00+00:00

AFTER THREE DAYS OF pained silence and accusatory looks from the crew, Myrina’s sisters were naturally relieved when the ships reached the coast across the sea from Mycenae. Thrust forward by a rising storm, the Trojan fleet was blown straight into the harbor of Ephesus, unable to lay anchor. All night the ships rocked and scraped against the docks, and by morning everyone was running around above and below, surveying the damage.

“There is no hurry,” said Paris, when Myrina came to bid him farewell. “We will not be leaving until everything is repaired.” He glanced at her as he spoke, and she was relieved to see that after two days of stubborn separation, his anger had evaporated at least enough for him to want to look at her again. “But if you and your sisters are ready to go—and I see that you are—let me take you to the Lady of Ephesus and introduce you. As you will soon realize, it is no coincidence I have brought you here.”

Leaving the harbor on foot, Paris escorted the women into town. In no particular hurry to complete the task, he gave Lilli his elbow and described everything they passed: the fruit vendors, the clothes dyers, and the old people sitting in the shade, lamenting the way the world was going. More than once, he made the girl laugh out loud with some fresh observation Myrina could barely hear.

Meanwhile, it was all Klito and Egee could do to pull Kara along with the group. Even though she had finally stopped crying over the death of the man who had—she kept insisting—cared for her after all, she still would not speak to Myrina nor acknowledge having been in need of saving. “I loved him!” she exclaimed more than once, to whoever was in earshot. “And he loved me!”

“Is that why he starved you, tied you up, and beat you?” Pitana finally asked. But Kara was deaf to all such voices; she had long since sought refuge in a life that existed only in her own mind.

Set among gentle hills and lush, uninhabited countryside, the town of Ephesus struck Myrina as a sleepy, harmless place. This was where she and her sisters would live until they had gathered the means to leave … or until they all grew old together and sat in the shade like these gentle elders, gumming the memories of peaceful lives. It was not a bleak prospect compared to the horror they had left at home, or seen at Mycenae, and yet Myrina found she could take no great pleasure in the vision. For regardless of how she framed it, it was a future without Paris, and although she had known him for only a short time, she felt her being had already attached itself to him. Wherever he went, she yearned to follow. If he disappeared from sight, even for a moment, she felt as unstable as a chair with one leg missing.

It was an odd and worrisome sensation to

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