Castles in Their Bones by Laura Sebastian

Author:Laura Sebastian [Sebastian, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2022-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

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The next morning, Sophronia sits down to write her mother a letter she likely should have written immediately after her conversation with Sir Diapollio. She needed proof that the message from King Cesare was legitimate, she tells herself, but she knows that isn’t the whole truth. She was afraid to tell her mother that Eugenia and Cesare were plotting to take Temarin out of her grasp. She was afraid her mother would find some way to twist it into being Sophronia’s fault.

But she has not only confirmed those suspicions but started undermining Eugenia’s plans, and she knows her mother cannot find fault with her now—she might even be proud, though that feels like too much to hope for.

Still, Sophronia is proud of herself, and that feels like enough.

She details the events of the last week in full, including the letter from Cesare to Eugenia word for word, then tells her mother the steps she is taking to undo the damage Eugenia has done. She knows her mother wants Temarin to fall, but on their terms, not Eugenia and Cesare’s. If Cellaria manages to get control of Temarin, Bessemia will have a hard time conquering both.

Feeling quite pleased with herself, Sophronia uses the Hartley Obfuscation to code the message into a bland and boring letter about the Temarinian weather and gives it to Violie to deliver to Bessemia.

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