Dark Lady's Chosen
“Kiara shook her head, hands on hips, as she watched Alle take a piece of charcoal from the fire and smudge a rune on the mantle of the doors and windows of the hunting lodge.
Alle stopped long enough to turn and look at Kiara over her shoulder. “What, Isencroft is too sophisticated for wardings?”
Cerise gave a sharp laugh, and joined them, depositing four small, smooth stones on the window ledge.
“Not you, too!”
Cerise dusted off her hands and shrugged. “Your mother said an Eastmark warding ove...r your crib every night. Viata disguised a Markian holy woman and spirited her into the palace to say the elements over you when you were born.” She chuckled. “Your father and mother rarely fought—at least where I could hear them, but Lady True! What a row they had over that. Donelan was hardly devout, but he didn’t want the gossips to get a hold of anything they could use against your mother. Viata wouldn’t be moved. She knew she had to give you up to making offerings to Chenne in public, but at home, in a hundred little ways you never realized, she taught you the ways of the Lover.”MoreLess
Alle stopped long enough to turn and look at Kiara over her shoulder. “What, Isencroft is too sophisticated for wardings?”
Cerise gave a sharp laugh, and joined them, depositing four small, smooth stones on the window ledge.
“Not you, too!”
Cerise dusted off her hands and shrugged. “Your mother said an Eastmark warding ove...r your crib every night. Viata disguised a Markian holy woman and spirited her into the palace to say the elements over you when you were born.” She chuckled. “Your father and mother rarely fought—at least where I could hear them, but Lady True! What a row they had over that. Donelan was hardly devout, but he didn’t want the gossips to get a hold of anything they could use against your mother. Viata wouldn’t be moved. She knew she had to give you up to making offerings to Chenne in public, but at home, in a hundred little ways you never realized, she taught you the ways of the Lover.”MoreLess
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