Illuminations: A Novel Of Hildegard Von Bingen - Plot & Excerpts
This was to be our last day of freedom before they bricked up the anchorage once more. Guda and Adelheid’s faces revealed that they, too, had hardly slept. From Compline to Matins, the three of us had held vigil, stitching by candlelight, at work on the secret plot I had hatched. This was to be the gamble of our lives. In preparation for this day, our one and only chance, I had implored Cuno to let us open Guda’s dowry chest, filled with damask, brocade, and golden wire. “My lord abbot, allow my sisters and me to sew a banner to honor Jutta, our magistra who is now a saint in heaven.” Outside our broken doorway, the courtyard brimmed with dignitaries. As our many visitors squeezed into the church for High Mass, I searched the crowd for Meginhard. Would he show himself? Part of me, I confess, longed to see Jutta’s tormentor brought low in shame, a wasted stick of a sinner. Let him cower under the glares that Volmar, Cuno, and I would hurl at him, we who knew his crime. Let him take that spiked penitent’s chain he had given his sister and wind it around his own neck to strangle himself.
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