It Dreams in Me (2012)
“CLEARWING’S HUSHED VOICE WOKE HER.
Wink leaped out of bed and grabbed for her black dress. It had to be just a few hands after nightfall. Breathlessly, she said, “What is it? What’s wrong?”
“Matron Sea Grass and three Water Hickory elders are standing at the front door with twenty warriors. They demand to see you this instant.”
Wink slipped her dress over her head and ran a comb through her graying black hair. As she hurried for her bedchamber door, she hastily smoothed the wrinkles from her sl...eeves.
Shouts echoed outside, rising in timbre until they resembled war cries.
Wink ducked into the torchlit corridor and found Clearwing standing outside her bedchamber with his war club gripped in both hands, prepared for the worst.
“Are you afraid they will storm my house?”
“Matron Sea Grass is very agitated. I’m not sure we can predict what she will do.”
Wink strode down the corridor for the council chamber with Clearwing right behind her. When she pulled back the curtain to the chamber, she quietly said, “Have someone wake Feather Dancer.”MoreLess
Wink leaped out of bed and grabbed for her black dress. It had to be just a few hands after nightfall. Breathlessly, she said, “What is it? What’s wrong?”
“Matron Sea Grass and three Water Hickory elders are standing at the front door with twenty warriors. They demand to see you this instant.”
Wink slipped her dress over her head and ran a comb through her graying black hair. As she hurried for her bedchamber door, she hastily smoothed the wrinkles from her sl...eeves.
Shouts echoed outside, rising in timbre until they resembled war cries.
Wink ducked into the torchlit corridor and found Clearwing standing outside her bedchamber with his war club gripped in both hands, prepared for the worst.
“Are you afraid they will storm my house?”
“Matron Sea Grass is very agitated. I’m not sure we can predict what she will do.”
Wink strode down the corridor for the council chamber with Clearwing right behind her. When she pulled back the curtain to the chamber, she quietly said, “Have someone wake Feather Dancer.”MoreLess
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