Kingmaker: Broken Faith
“They are sitting by the hardly warm oven again, when Horner comes up the winding steps.
‘Sir Ralph is after an audience with you, Kit,’ he tells them. ‘Something to discuss. Sorry.’ Sir Ralph Grey meets them in the great hall where they were presented to King Henry earlier in the day. The boards have been cleared, dust motes whirl in the wan autumn light from the long windows, and the fire has died in its place. Grey, who has been celebrating the success of his audience with King Henry, is sitting on a coffer, smiling warmly at a long-nosed dog busy with a beef bone.
‘Ahhh,’ he says when he sees them. ‘Aaaahhhh.’ He stands and sits again, so that his head is slightly lower than theirs, his rheumy eyes peering up not unlike the dog’s, and he smells strongly of his spirit.
‘Boy,’ he says, addressing Katherine. ‘I mean, ahhh, master. I want you to see to this patient of the King’s. I – to tell the truth, and this is absolutely. No. No. I want you to cure him. Do you see?
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