Wildwing by Emily Whitman

Author:Emily Whitman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780062011893
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2010-07-07T21:00:00+00:00

Came in a Box

At first I went to the field for the sake of the lift. But something is changing.

Each day when I rise, Beatrix brings me bread and wine and dresses me in a sturdy kirtle, good for riding. A quick visit to the castle chapel for matins, and then she and I meet William in the mews, and we’re off to the field. Sun or rain or wind, it doesn’t matter; rain beads up on Pilgrim’s feathers like pearls, and as for wind, she prefers it, facing into a gale with a special alertness. As she stands on my wrist, I sense her excitement, and it starts to fill me, too.

Each day I count how much longer until the lift is in the field: only three more days now. And as for Sir Hugh arriving, it’s clear that “sennight” of which Beatrix spoke in the wagon

was just a guess. I’m used to time being something you countby the second, to people complaining if their train is five minutes late. Here there are no minutes, no clocks ticking away. Here there’s breakfast and dinner and supper, there’s matins in the morning and the sun high for noon. And days of the week? They’d rather talk of which saint’s day it is. No one knows exactly when Sir Hugh will return. “Soon,” they say. “Soon” I wish it were never.

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