Rejected, Replaced and Forgotten novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: The Rite of the Open Bond
The song went on in my head, one line at a time, and I chased it.
My father's thumb on the edge of the plate, because he never could carry anything without touching it.
Then the wall came down, and I was lying under the stones with my teeth chattering.
"Lenna." Osian's hand was flat between my shoulder blades. "Tell me what you saw."
"My birthday," I said. "Someone loved me, once, in a gold dress."
"Someone still might."
I laughed, and it came out wet.
A lantern bobbed up the hill path, and Garland came through the gap in the wall with his glasses fogged.
He looked at the King's coat, and at me inside it, and he turned his back with great dignity.
"The Moon Council rode in an hour ago," he said to the meadow. "I sent the raven the night I read that thread."
"You might have mentioned it," said Osian.
"I did. It's in the ledger, under a heading called Things the King Didn't Read."
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