The Golden Princess: A Novel Of The Change (Change Series) - Plot & Excerpts
Having a great time, see you soon with full details. Órlaith read the note from John again and smiled as she and Reiko walked to the north of the manor-house a few hours after sunrise. There was a pleasant allée of ancient oaks there along a graveled roadway that led down to the rose-grown buildings of the winery, big trees whose branches met overhead at eighty feet or better, with iron brackets to hold lanterns at twice head-height. Saplings ten or fifteen feet high stood midway between each, which was what they called grandparent thinking—you planted oak trees for your children’s children to get the full benefit. The big ones here must have been old before the Change. Blue jays flitted between them, their voices loud. There was a dense fresh smell in the air, slightly diluted with woodsmoke, and as they approached the winery the faint ghost of old must and spilled wine and fermentation tanks. A muted sound of mallets on wood carried through the brick walls—there was a big barrel-making shop there as well as the stemmer-crushers and vats and cellars.
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