Faces (2015)
“A month had passed since she had ascended to the Lady’s stronghold. She had yet to pay a visit to her old compatriots.
Winter had at last begun to yield reluctantly to spring: though it had snowed twice since their arrival, water now ran in the streets, the river had thawed and was beginning to swell, and the trees had long since shaken themselves free of their thick white burdens.
For the first couple of weeks in the fortress, she’d hardly given a thought to the unMasked Army, the Secr...et City, Catilla and Hyram and Chell and all the rest of them. They seemed to belong to a past life, a life that had nothing to do with either her present or her future.
Even Keltan had rarely surfaced in her thoughts. He had shown up in her dreams—which, thanks to Whiteblaze’s presence, were now only dreams, and not nightmares—and she did miss him when she thought of him, but in some ways she’d been grateful to be cut off from him.MoreLess
Winter had at last begun to yield reluctantly to spring: though it had snowed twice since their arrival, water now ran in the streets, the river had thawed and was beginning to swell, and the trees had long since shaken themselves free of their thick white burdens.
For the first couple of weeks in the fortress, she’d hardly given a thought to the unMasked Army, the Secr...et City, Catilla and Hyram and Chell and all the rest of them. They seemed to belong to a past life, a life that had nothing to do with either her present or her future.
Even Keltan had rarely surfaced in her thoughts. He had shown up in her dreams—which, thanks to Whiteblaze’s presence, were now only dreams, and not nightmares—and she did miss him when she thought of him, but in some ways she’d been grateful to be cut off from him.MoreLess
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