A Bloom in the North by M.C.A. Hogarth

Author:M.C.A. Hogarth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: M.C.A. Hogarth
Published: 2015-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

After he'd left, Kuli found me still sitting at the table, and from how quickly she did it she'd been waiting.

"You were listening?" I said.

"Maybe a little," she admitted, flushing white at the ears. "You don't mind?"

"Not when the talk is about your proposal," I said.

She perched on the chair Eduñil had vacated. Someone had braided her hair into multiple plaits with long leather cords and brown vines. Perhaps in spring they would use flowers? I looked forward to it. "Do you think he'll do it?"

"He will," I said. "But he'll need some time to convince himself of it."

"We can wait," Kuli murmured. "We're good at waiting."

I watched her face, her eyes glowing from beneath her lowered lashes as she ran her finger over the honey on Eduñil's discarded dessert plate. "Who turned the garden soil for you? And what are you planning?"

She brightened and began to explain, and I listened with pleasure to her animation, her enthusiasm. Gods, what a sin we committed by acting as if the anadi were lost to us before the mind-death took them. We thought to avoid heartache by hiding them from sight but all we did was transfer the pain from ourselves to them. Very convenient for us.

The matter of childbearing remained, but there had to be some way to manage it. That I could not imagine it now, observing Kuli's excitement and how it lit her eyes, did not mean it didn't exist.

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