The Queen's Gambit: book One of Imirillia (The Books of Imirillia 1)
“At first, she did not believe Eleanor.
“It could not be, could it Eleanor?” Edythe said again and again. But, the ghost of the life that would not be, the only life she had ever considered, settled behind Edythe’s numb eyes.
“The grief will leave no part of her untouched,” Eleanor tearfully told Aedon, who had come with her to Ainsley. “When she wakes from her numbness, she won’t be able to bear it. I can’t bear it myself.”
It had been raining for three days, and the gardens were co...ntent to drown in the late-summer showers. But it was cold in the palace. Ridiculously cold, Eleanor thought as she stood at the window, watching the wet afternoon. She was in her private audience chamber, trying to focus on the numbers before her in the report that Aedon had prepared, but she found little success in these efforts.
It was well over a week past now, and Eleanor knew that it was time for her to decide what the massacre at Common Field meant, politically.MoreLess
“It could not be, could it Eleanor?” Edythe said again and again. But, the ghost of the life that would not be, the only life she had ever considered, settled behind Edythe’s numb eyes.
“The grief will leave no part of her untouched,” Eleanor tearfully told Aedon, who had come with her to Ainsley. “When she wakes from her numbness, she won’t be able to bear it. I can’t bear it myself.”
It had been raining for three days, and the gardens were co...ntent to drown in the late-summer showers. But it was cold in the palace. Ridiculously cold, Eleanor thought as she stood at the window, watching the wet afternoon. She was in her private audience chamber, trying to focus on the numbers before her in the report that Aedon had prepared, but she found little success in these efforts.
It was well over a week past now, and Eleanor knew that it was time for her to decide what the massacre at Common Field meant, politically.MoreLess
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