Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey

Author:Janet Lee Carey [Carey, Janet Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9780152059262
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Goodreads: 626096
Publisher: Magic Carpet
Published: 2007-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

"No one could love you as I do, Rosie." She brushed my hair from my damp cheek. "Why do you weep?"

"The pain," I said, and it was true, but it was not of my wounds I spoke. Mother dosed me a second time with honeyed poppy. I sucked down the sweetness of it, grateful for the shroud of sleep.

The next day I awoke to the coolness of a man's hand against my head and, turning, murmured, "Kye."

I opened my eyes to find my father sitting on my bed. "Rosie? Poppet?" he said, leaning over me. "Are you feeling better?"

Before I could answer he held out a small bouquet of bluebells and bleeding hearts. I sat up slowly and took the little posy.

"I leave for France tomorrow," said Father. "Let me take you to the walled garden and see you in the blossoms before I go."

I was still weak, but tired of the stale air in my solar. "Would you carry me down?"

Father stamped his foot, playing like a horse. "I would, milady."

I laughed. I'd not made the king prance about since I was six. "I have a wish," I said, pulling back my hair.

"Granted."

"I've not yet thanked my savior, Kye. If you would ask him to come to the garden—"

"Ask another wish, poppet."

"Why? Is it wrong that I should—"

"Lord Godrick's ship has sailed. Kye is gone."

My heart was already cracked, but this one word, gone, was the stone that broke it. I dropped the flowers on the coverlet.

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