The Noble of Sperath by Siera Maley

Author:Siera Maley [Maley, Siera]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-08T05:00:00+00:00

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It took only another week of roaming the castle with Carla and the other servants before Lia had her second strange dream. She recognized that she was within the hallways of Thesp’s castle from the days she’d spent keeping them tidy, but in her dream she navigated them with a confidence she’d yet to acquire while awake, turning corners and climbing staircases without getting lost or having to double back.

Eventually, she reached a door with a silver handle at the end of a hallway and pushed it open, revealing an unfamiliar room. It was some sort of library, filled with rows and rows of books and scrolls. Lia wound her way through the stacks until she’d reached a shelf at the back left corner of the room. She scanned the shelf for a book on the third row, found a thick text titled Eveinian Flora, and removed it from the shelf.

With one hand, she flipped past several dozen pages and settled on the eighty-seventh, where her finger slid from the top of the page to the paragraph at the very bottom. There, a small sentence had been underlined with black ink: “The Victoria is often considered to be the most beautiful of Sperathian water lilies, and has been known to support large amounts of weight despite its delicate nature.” She studied the sentence for a moment, then let out a soft chuckle and replaced the book, turning away to leave the library.

Lia’s dream ended there. She stared up at the ceiling over her head once she’d awoken, her mind racing as she tried to cling to the details of the dream. Like the dream she’d had of the hooded woman, this dream, too, felt differently from the ones she was used to. And if she was right, and her dream had been a memory from her past, then this was not her first time living amongst Sperathian nobility in Thesp. She recalled the way that the queen’s eyes—eyes which were eerily similar to Jade’s—had seemed so familiar to her when she’d first seen her portrait, and a chill ran down her spine.

She ran through the dream again, struggling to recall the maze of halls and stairways she’d passed on her way to the library. If she could find the library, the book, and the underlined passage, she’d have proof that her dream had been a memory. She’d finally have some concrete knowledge of her own past, something she’d been longing for since the day she’d awoken in Lemn.

But she doubted she’d seen even half of the castle so far in her short time working there, and she also doubted she’d be able to find the library without help. She couldn’t ask Carla without arousing suspicion, given that servants were largely discouraged from wandering the castle, and she hardly saw Kaleb or Henrik, each of whom she imagined would just tell her to focus on potential threats to Jade and not on uncovering her own past anyway. To them, her duties as a Seer would always come first.

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