Shadowborn (Light & Shadow, Book 1) - Plot & Excerpts
Each night, the boys would stand up and bow to the throne, and then leave, and then the girls would step forward and curtsy, and leave as well. It had always been an empty gesture, at most a chance for the Dowager Queen to see the children and notice who might be missing. With the King’s return, however, the once-empty ritual had become the focus of the night. Girls fussed with their hair, smoothed their gowns, fiddled with their necklaces. They blushed as they all curtsied, and each had her own flourish to add: the flick of a skirt, the curve of a shoulder. All save Miriel, of course, who managed to curtsey as solemnly as if she was directing the gesture solely to the Head Priest at Isra’s side. Then, one night, as the girls turned from their curtsies to leave, Miriel caught her heel in the rushes and stumbled. When she righted herself, she was blushing, and she cast such an anguished glance up at the Queen’s throne that for a moment even I believe it to have been a mistake. I thought of the thrashing she would get for this, and my throat tightened.
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