Blood's Pride (Shattered Kingdoms) - Plot & Excerpts
She’d sent the servants away and the room was silent except for the gentle lapping of the water; the little lamp flickering on the other side of the cavern cast the only light. She lifted her chin and let her head loll back against the tub’s polished stone rim. She’d had a thin notion that the bath would wash away some of the taint of failure she’d brought away with her from the stables. She’d been wrong. A drop of water plunked down into the cistern in the corner. She sat up again and flung her arms out with a splash. Little gleaming rivulets ran over her iridescent skin and pattered down onto the dry stone floor. Her arms looked odd, unfamiliar, like a pair of snakes lazing on the edge of a pool – like they didn’t belong to her at all. Brooding over her failures was a waste of time; she already had a new plan. Frea and her soldiers would not return from the mines until an hour or so before dawn, so when she went back to the stables there’d be no gawking Shadari or snickering Norlanders, and no taunting sister to jangle at her emotions and disrupt her concentration.
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