Chosen of Kore: 124. Jester
She couldn't hear the drums with her own ears but knew when they beat through Molly's....
She couldn't hear the drums with her own ears but knew when they beat through Molly's....
She considered it lucky they made it as far as they did. It had been a fool's gambit.
She leaned over Jules to shake his shoulder, careful not to drip water from her still-soaked peplos onto his face.
It didn't hit him until they were far away from Atherton, riding down the long road that would take them from all familiarity...
Ghia paced at the doorway to the stables in frustration.
The rhythm of the horse's trot kept her from thinking, lulling her as a ship would her friend Anala.
He couldn't believe himself. What on earth had possessed him to say that to the Empress?
Lares was sitting beside Healer Ghia during the Birthright Ceremony.
Yarrow couldn't think as she flew down the hallway to her room.
Jules could feel the shock reverberate through the woman sitting in front of him as palpably as if he'd been hit in the face with a shovel.