Princess Academy: Palace of Stone by Shannon Hale

Author:Shannon Hale [Hale, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, General, Love & Romance, Fantasy & Magic
ISBN: 9781408834916
Google: SzaKU_OqvBcC
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-06-06T11:44:48+00:00

about this," said a trader with white hair and a smooth face, "he'll send others to mine the linder. I've half a mind to do it myself."

"Go right ahead," said Os, his arm open and gesturing to the quarry.

The trader hesitated, and many of the lowlanders exchanged glances.

"Do you have any idea what it takes to find quiet stone?" said Doter in her round, loud voice. "Quiet stone-the linder that sleeps, that is good and sound, has fissures in just the right places, but not too many. Do you have the ear to hear where to break it from the mountain, the eye to know where to slide the wedge, how many taps of the mallet, not one too many, not one too few? And then there's the squaring to be done. You're fools, the lot of you, if you think we're not aware that we're the only people alive who know this mountain and know linder and how to harvest it for palaces and kings. So don't try that threat on us again."

A gush of warmth entered Miri's chest, she felt so proud and happy to be part of a people who knew a craft no one else did. She wanted to run to Esa's mother and hug her, and the desire pricked in her heart the old, tiny wound that reminded her she did not have a mother of her own. She sidled up to her pa.

After Doter's lecture, both sideswere quiet,

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