The Lord-Protector's Daughter (2008)
“What exactly had caused Rachylana’s collapse? Was it really some sort of bad food, as Treghyt had said? Or something more deliberate, as the healer had hinted? But, if it were, why would anyone wish to poison Rachylana? That made little sense to Mykella.
Then there were other questions. Why exactly had Cheleyza held a gathering of mostly older women and then invited the Lord-Protector’s daughters? Why was the greenish darkness only in some places beneath the ground? Was that why the palace had ...been built where it had been? And the suggestion by Jylara that Mykella visit Lord Gharyk’s study to see the painting of Mykel the Great’s wife—that had also been strange, because Mykella hadn’t sensed anything untoward or malicious behind the words. But then, she hadn’t really been looking for that, caught unaware as she had been.
She was the first at breakfast on Londi morning, and she drank half a mug of tea before Salyna and Rachylana appeared. Mykella immediately studied Rachylana, noting a trace of the gray mist around her middle, but it appeared patchy, as if it were dissipating, like fog in the sunlight.MoreLess
Then there were other questions. Why exactly had Cheleyza held a gathering of mostly older women and then invited the Lord-Protector’s daughters? Why was the greenish darkness only in some places beneath the ground? Was that why the palace had ...been built where it had been? And the suggestion by Jylara that Mykella visit Lord Gharyk’s study to see the painting of Mykel the Great’s wife—that had also been strange, because Mykella hadn’t sensed anything untoward or malicious behind the words. But then, she hadn’t really been looking for that, caught unaware as she had been.
She was the first at breakfast on Londi morning, and she drank half a mug of tea before Salyna and Rachylana appeared. Mykella immediately studied Rachylana, noting a trace of the gray mist around her middle, but it appeared patchy, as if it were dissipating, like fog in the sunlight.MoreLess
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