Knights of De Ware 03 - My Hero
““I don’t care,” she mumbled drunkenly to no one, frowning.
The dizziness was fine. Better by far than the terrible guilt and shame that had tortured her for two weeks, days spent hiding from Garth and Elspeth and the decent man everyone wanted her to take to husband. Everyone but her. Hell—today, according to Elspeth, she’d even managed to hide from the Abbot himself.
She plopped down into the water and let her head nod forward.
“Piss.”
She’d forgotten to take off her linen underdress. It stuck... to her like a wet snake’s skin.
“Well, I don’t care.”
She was miserable. For no good reason.
She should be happy. She was healthy. She was rich. Soon she would be wed. The seeds she’d planted were already poking their little green heads up through the soil.
But she felt wretched.
Ale slopped over the side of her mug into the bath, and she quickly righted the cup and then looked for a place to set it. There was none. She scowled.
“Mary!”
The tapestry on the wall swayed as she watched it, and she closed her eyes to stop the nauseating motion.MoreLess
The dizziness was fine. Better by far than the terrible guilt and shame that had tortured her for two weeks, days spent hiding from Garth and Elspeth and the decent man everyone wanted her to take to husband. Everyone but her. Hell—today, according to Elspeth, she’d even managed to hide from the Abbot himself.
She plopped down into the water and let her head nod forward.
“Piss.”
She’d forgotten to take off her linen underdress. It stuck... to her like a wet snake’s skin.
“Well, I don’t care.”
She was miserable. For no good reason.
She should be happy. She was healthy. She was rich. Soon she would be wed. The seeds she’d planted were already poking their little green heads up through the soil.
But she felt wretched.
Ale slopped over the side of her mug into the bath, and she quickly righted the cup and then looked for a place to set it. There was none. She scowled.
“Mary!”
The tapestry on the wall swayed as she watched it, and she closed her eyes to stop the nauseating motion.MoreLess
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