Frost Child (Rebel Angels)
“There was still something I disliked about the boy, something I distrusted, and if anything he seemed to have grown worse: more underhand, more vicious. I saw him spit in her food when her back was turned; I saw him spill slops deliberately on her cloak, or drop something suddenly to trip her.
She was right, though; she could handle him now. If she ever retaliated I didn’t know about it, but I don’t think she did. Or rather, she retaliated in the most wounding way possible, which was to pretend... Ramasg did not exist. He was so clearly jealous of her, as well as afraid and contemptuous, that her complete failure to see him must have been like a fishhook in his gullet. Nor did it help his prestige even among his own friends, which duly plummeted, especially since Lilith was always careful to acknowledge them, to smile shyly and nod at them as they passed her in the courtyard. She’d be a clever politician when she was older.
And as she said, she had the crow Dornadair. It might go off hunting alone now and then, but mostly they were together, out on the moor or down on the rocks.MoreLess
She was right, though; she could handle him now. If she ever retaliated I didn’t know about it, but I don’t think she did. Or rather, she retaliated in the most wounding way possible, which was to pretend... Ramasg did not exist. He was so clearly jealous of her, as well as afraid and contemptuous, that her complete failure to see him must have been like a fishhook in his gullet. Nor did it help his prestige even among his own friends, which duly plummeted, especially since Lilith was always careful to acknowledge them, to smile shyly and nod at them as they passed her in the courtyard. She’d be a clever politician when she was older.
And as she said, she had the crow Dornadair. It might go off hunting alone now and then, but mostly they were together, out on the moor or down on the rocks.MoreLess
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