The Weeping Ash (2016)
“She longed to resume their journey and said as much to Cal, in one of the rare chances she found to catch a word alone with him.
The male guests were being lavishly entertained—hunting parties in pursuit of musk deer and a beast called rero, hawking parties, shooting matches—and, at night, much feasting, from which the females judged it prudent to absent themselves.
“It is very fine for you,” Scylla said to her brother. “But all that is thought suitable for us is endless gossip with the... Bai’s ladies and being taught how to weave blankets and ferment goat’s milk.”
“I wouldn’t object,” said Cal. “All this target practice is a dead bore! I haven’t had a moment to work on my poem since we arrived here. I would be happy to sit at home with the Bai’s wives—one of them is uncommonly pretty.”
Scylla glanced at him a trifle anxiously. There had been a note of sincerity in his voice; and it had not escaped her notice that during the last feast his gaze had been frequently attracted to the Bai’s youngest wife, a beautiful kittenish laughing creature called Sripana, hardly more than fourteen, the pet of the whole establishment.MoreLess
The male guests were being lavishly entertained—hunting parties in pursuit of musk deer and a beast called rero, hawking parties, shooting matches—and, at night, much feasting, from which the females judged it prudent to absent themselves.
“It is very fine for you,” Scylla said to her brother. “But all that is thought suitable for us is endless gossip with the... Bai’s ladies and being taught how to weave blankets and ferment goat’s milk.”
“I wouldn’t object,” said Cal. “All this target practice is a dead bore! I haven’t had a moment to work on my poem since we arrived here. I would be happy to sit at home with the Bai’s wives—one of them is uncommonly pretty.”
Scylla glanced at him a trifle anxiously. There had been a note of sincerity in his voice; and it had not escaped her notice that during the last feast his gaze had been frequently attracted to the Bai’s youngest wife, a beautiful kittenish laughing creature called Sripana, hardly more than fourteen, the pet of the whole establishment.MoreLess
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