The Book of Koli by M. R. Carey

Author:M. R. Carey [Carey, M. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780356509532
Google: PhicDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0356509559
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2020-04-13T23:00:00+00:00

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Most things in a story got to stay in their right place, or they won’t make no sense at all. But there’s other things that only come to make sense a long time after they’re done with.

I believe that day, that night, was a thing of the second kind. Some parts of it was anyway. I thought I seen plain enough what the Vennastins was doing to me, and why they was doing it, but I done wrong to see it as the same thing for all of them, with the same reason behind it.

Fer was clear enough about what she wanted: it was to turn away the threat she seen in me and keep her family in the high state they always enjoyed. Mardew was simpler still, for he was just all desiring to spite me on account of the DreamSleeve being mine and not his, even when it was in his hand. And Perliu, I thought, had woke out of a dream for just long enough to show willing.

But that fear I seen in Catrin’s eyes showed her different than any of them others. I thought then that it was a fear for me, her being disinclined on account of a mother’s soft feelings to see someone she knowed from the cradle kicking his heels inside of a noose, or burned, or shot, or whatever else they might of done to me.

But I have thought more on the matter since, seeing it in different lights at different times, and I believe I was wrong. It wasn’t a fear for me, like I thought, but for something else. Or maybe a part of it was for me. The rest was for that thing she drawed in words for me, of the Count and Seal bowing to the Ramparts’ naked will, and Ramparts lording it through threats and intimidations and the spilling of blood. She was afraid of what Ramparts would become if their lies was knowed and they still had power. If instead of tricks, they ruled by hurting and forcing. She seen in her heart what awful things that might bring, and she could not bear the thought of it.

That was why she bent so far and worked so hard to give me the choice of going faceless. Her saving my life was the smallest part of it, for how long would I live outside the gates on my own? It was Mythen Rood she meant to save, and the twice times a hundred people that was in her care.

Out of all of them, I think she was the one that knowed what Rampart meant.

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