Horns for the Harem Girl
“There were seven of them at first, seven lights in the distance that broke the blackness surrounding Salomana’s palace like flashlights erupting from the woods. When Helena saw the first of them, she couldn’t believe her eyes.
Two days of whispers and sidelong glances preceded the fires, but no one really believed they’d come. Least of all Helena herself. Out of her window, she watched the second spring up and then the third. She recognized the locations – armories, sure to explode... that is, unless they’d already been looted. The girl tried to convince herself she had nothing to do with all of it, but she knew deep down what was happening. Arad had lit those fires to overthrow a tyrant. At least, that was the version he’d tell his supporters.
Really? He’d started the fires for her.
He’d promised that if a war with his father, a war against the old ways, was the only possibility for their being together, he’d do it. He must’ve talked to his father, and they must, Helena thought, not ...have come to a pleasing agreement.MoreLess
Two days of whispers and sidelong glances preceded the fires, but no one really believed they’d come. Least of all Helena herself. Out of her window, she watched the second spring up and then the third. She recognized the locations – armories, sure to explode... that is, unless they’d already been looted. The girl tried to convince herself she had nothing to do with all of it, but she knew deep down what was happening. Arad had lit those fires to overthrow a tyrant. At least, that was the version he’d tell his supporters.
Really? He’d started the fires for her.
He’d promised that if a war with his father, a war against the old ways, was the only possibility for their being together, he’d do it. He must’ve talked to his father, and they must, Helena thought, not ...have come to a pleasing agreement.MoreLess
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