Our Lady of the Islands
“It smelled of septic damp and pungent fungal growth, and didn’t even have a pallet. She lay in darkness now, upon the floor, reviewing all the things she’d gotten wrong in life — beginning with this doomed attempt to do Hivat’s work for him. Not that Hivat had ever offered to try rescuing Sian himself. Only warned against it — as had Viktor. Should she have listened to them?She still wasn’t sure.She knew very well that telling Duon who she was might avert her execution. But she had no way of kn...owing what use he might make of her instead, against Viktor and the Factorate. There was also some slim hope that Escotte had betrayed Sian and her ‘maid’ without realizing, even then, who that maid had been. If so, this secretive surrender of her life might still purchase Viktor and his nation time to bypass an instant plunge into civil war. She might get one thing right, at least, before the end.The soft glow through a slit of window, high up in her cell wall, told her dawn had come.MoreLess
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