(eng) Lynn Kurland - Nine Kingdoms 07 by Dreamspinner

Author:Dreamspinner [Dreamspinner]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Aisling wandered through the racks of books in Lismòr’s library, trying not to look as overwhelmed as she felt. She had never in her life seen so many books, nor imagined that so many could exist in the same place. The keeper of the books, Master Dominicus, had sternly warned her not to touch anything, a condition of entrance to which she had agreed without hesitation. He had then demanded to know what she was looking for, but in that, at least, she had held her ground and refused to speak.

Because she was looking for the truth.

She had eaten a very lovely breakfast by herself, brought by Lord Nicholas’s page William, which had shored her up for the day’s activities but also left her feeling rather more irritated than she would have suspected. Who knew that such food existed and in such abundance? She wondered how she had lived twenty-seven years of her life on beggar’s rations.

She was beginning to wonder quite a few things.

William had told her that she was free to wander about the university, and he had been good enough to show her to the library. She had walked inside, then come to an ungainly halt.

She had stood at the door for several minutes, trying without success to shut her mouth. The sight that had greeted her eyes had been so overwhelming, she hadn’t known even where to begin to look for what she needed. Not that she’d even had a clear idea of what that thing might be. She had considered earlier that morning trying to find out about the nature of curses and how to get out from under them, but the more she’d thought about it, the sillier the idea had seemed. Who would write a book about such a thing?

She had then decided perhaps she should seek out books about Bruadair, but it had taken her even less time to dismiss that idea. Given the secretive nature of her country, who would dare pen such a tome? No native would for fear of dying and no stranger would know enough to say anything useful. Even she, who had lived inside Bruadair’s borders for the whole of her life, couldn’t speak of anything but the Guild.

What she wanted was to find everything in a neat, tidy little tome that would tell her without mincing words that everything she had believed up until that moment had been true, that she could count on curses, that she had never once over the course of her twenty-seven years been lied to, and that the preceding two fortnights had been nothing but an aberration.

She wasn’t quite sure what she would do if she found out that it had all been an elaborately staged lie.

After William had introduced her to Master Dominicus, then departed for safer ground, she had done her best to look trustworthy, which had perhaps worked in her favor. Master Dominicus, after delivering his warning to her, had gone back to his work of scolding students who were whispering loudly behind their hands.

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