Lady of Dreams by W.R. Gingell

Author:W.R. Gingell [Gingell, W.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Press
Published: 2018-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

I spent four weary days Dreaming of Jessamy and Ae-jung before I capitulated and nudged Eun-hee into taking me with her on a visit to the cottage. Yong-hwa had visited Ae-jung for the first two days, taking her out for walks in the cottage gardens when she had been sitting for too long, but for the last two days he had remained at the manor. He found Ae-jung’s book in his sheet music the second day of her absence, and I wasn’t sure if he kept to his rooms because he was writing music or because he was silently puzzling about who had put it there for him. Perhaps he was doing both; he did have his stave paper in front of him, but he spent more time gazing out into the garden than he did in actual writing. In either case, it was more worrisome than soothing to be pulled into his Dreams, no matter how compelling they were.

It was a fine day for a visit—bright sunshine and very little breeze—and despite the fact that I couldn’t even sit up properly by myself, I smiled as Carlin carried me to the lane puffer.

“You shouldn’t have sent him away if you were going to miss him,” said Eun-hee, climbing in after me and crowding onto the same seat. She saw me looking at her in surprise and said without a blush, “I don’t feel like facing backward today.”

“Unni, your lying is a lot better these days,” I said. I was glad to have her there, propping me up. It felt as though it would take very little for me to slither onto the floor today. Carlin must have been satisfied, too, because he didn’t gaze anxiously at me through the window as he normally does; he leaped lightly into his usual spot behind us and wedged himself in beside my chaise longue.

Eun-hee gave a tiny pleased sniff at that and slipped her hand through my arm. “I told him to pack your overnight case,” she said. “I thought you could stay overnight.”

“Getting rid of me, Unni?” But I smiled a little anyway. If Eun-hee and Carlin took to working together like this often, they would be very hard to resist. Their quiet antagonism was one of the constants I counted on to get my own way as often as I did.

“We can walk in the garden when you get back,” said Eun-hee, declining to answer outright. “Besides, Dong-wook told me that you’re helping that poor girl. I thought it might be easier from the cottage.”

“Nae,” I agreed. It would also be useful for getting me away from Hyun-jun’s wild and nowadays very frightening gaze. Unlike Yong-hwa, he hadn’t thought to enquire after Jessamy’s whereabouts in order to discover Ae-jung’s, and he had spent the last four days alternately brooding in odd corners and sweeping about the manor like a particularly dangerous storm front, chilling and slightly stunning anyone with whom he came into contact. Even Se-ri had stayed out of his way, though not so assiduously as either Yong-hwa or I.

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