She Stole My Curse novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: The Blood Tide
The Tide Circle lay on the open seabed halfway between Pearlmere and the Wreck Deep.
It was older than the Court.
Twelve standing stones in a ring, taller than ships, carved with dragons worn almost smooth.
Tonight the red moon shone straight down into it.
The whole court had come.
Lords and ladies hung in the water outside the stones, rows and rows of them, in their jewels.
My mother sat on a carried throne at the north stone, in pearl-sewn white, with her hands folded.
She looked at me once when I swam in.
I didn't stand behind the spears.
She looked away.
The spears made a ring inside the stones. Thirty of them, points turned in.
Their captain floated at the gap where we came through.
He was a big man with a scarred jaw and a new gold ring on his thumb.
He smiled at Aurek.
Outside the stones on the west side, the whole Wreck Deep had come too.
The old nurse in her basket. Corwen. The blind man with his lute. The brothers, the girl with the torn fin, the maid.
They didn't cheer. They just held up their lamps so we could see them.
On the east side, by the south stone, eight vent-folk captains held a litter.
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