Urchin And the Raven War

Authors: M. I. Mcallister

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“At her first coming to the tower she had been taught by Mistress Thripple, the wife of Docken the hedgehog and mother of Hope and Mopple. (Now that Docken was a captain she was Lady Thripple, but she didn’t expect anyone to call her that.) Thripple had a hunched and twisted look about her, but the longer Needle had known her, the less she noticed what she looked like. They had become great friends. If anything in the workrooms troubled Needle, she would ask motherly, sensible Thripple about it.... So now she sat on a workroom bench when everyone else had left, surrounded by uncompleted tapestries, skeins of wool and silk, cord and ribbon, pale blue, deep blue, midnight blue, pale pink to deep pink, and every shade of green. Before her was a half-finished Threading of the tower, stitched on canvas.“You wanted to see me?” said Thripple.“Oh, yes, please!” said Needle, and shuffled along the workbench to make room. “Will you look at this, please?”Thripple turned the Threading toward the light.“It’s by one of the new apprentices, isn’t it?”MoreLess Read More Read Less