Masks
“She had more company this time—not one man, but four: two Watchers, and two other men whose Masks, white, with four black diamonds across the forehead and another on each cheek, gave no hint as to their profession to Mara, who had never seen that design before.
She also had warmer clothes: she’d been provided with new, lined boots, red woolen trousers, a rather nice blue, long-sleeved tunic, a woolen vest, a brown sheepskin coat to wear over that, and a fur-lined cloak to wear over that. Pl...us leather gloves and a warm-but-ugly hat, both lined with rabbit fur.
Watching her breath and her mule’s emerging in white clouds as she rode toward the gate, she felt grateful. Every day the snow crept lower down the slopes beneath the ice-covered peaks to the north. “Winter’s just around the corner,” the trustee servant had told Mara as she laid out the clothes. “Snow could come to stay any day. You’ll need this and more, if you’re out in the mountains for long.”MoreLess
She also had warmer clothes: she’d been provided with new, lined boots, red woolen trousers, a rather nice blue, long-sleeved tunic, a woolen vest, a brown sheepskin coat to wear over that, and a fur-lined cloak to wear over that. Pl...us leather gloves and a warm-but-ugly hat, both lined with rabbit fur.
Watching her breath and her mule’s emerging in white clouds as she rode toward the gate, she felt grateful. Every day the snow crept lower down the slopes beneath the ice-covered peaks to the north. “Winter’s just around the corner,” the trustee servant had told Mara as she laid out the clothes. “Snow could come to stay any day. You’ll need this and more, if you’re out in the mountains for long.”MoreLess
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