Wildwood Dancing
“I kept myself very busy: first chatting to Aunt Bogdana, then dancing with Rǎzvan and Daniel and some other young men, whose names I instantly forgot. Gogu’s comments were predictable: Too tall, you’d get a sore neck just talking to him.
This one smells.
Lavender silk. What more need I say?
I imagined a different face on my partner: a tangle of dark hair, a sweet mouth, wary green eyes. Beside the man in Drǎguţa’s mirror, tonight’s collection of suitors seemed entirely without character. Then, ...in my imagination, I heard my sisters’ screams as the green-eyed man turned to something monstrous, and I knew how foolish it was to let myself think of him. Dark of the Moon had opened up a realm of peril—dream about it too much and I might be drawn into forgetting my sense of right and wrong. This world, I told myself sternly. These suitors, this life. If you want your family to be safe, if you want to protect Piscul Dracului, this is the way.
I kept watch over my sisters, something that was second nature from our visits to Dancing Glade.MoreLess
This one smells.
Lavender silk. What more need I say?
I imagined a different face on my partner: a tangle of dark hair, a sweet mouth, wary green eyes. Beside the man in Drǎguţa’s mirror, tonight’s collection of suitors seemed entirely without character. Then, ...in my imagination, I heard my sisters’ screams as the green-eyed man turned to something monstrous, and I knew how foolish it was to let myself think of him. Dark of the Moon had opened up a realm of peril—dream about it too much and I might be drawn into forgetting my sense of right and wrong. This world, I told myself sternly. These suitors, this life. If you want your family to be safe, if you want to protect Piscul Dracului, this is the way.
I kept watch over my sisters, something that was second nature from our visits to Dancing Glade.MoreLess
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